In February, major league baseball pitchers and catchers report for spring training and many little leaguers throughout the country also get ready for the national pastime. This photo shows some ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Born in Calvert, Texas to an American Methodist Episcopal minister and his wife in 1879, Foster became a baseball star, and as a young man gained the reputation as one of the hardest throwing pitchers ...