The Sweet Spot: A Treasury of Baseball Stories

New York Yankee bat boy Matthew McGough shares his first day working for the Bronx Bombers in the Don Mattingly era.

Artist Mark Ulriksen expresses his love for baseball in world-class paintings.

Emma came to the US from Honduras and fell in love with baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Her die-hard love for the boys in blue resulted in fans voting Emma Dodger fan of the year in 2016.

Tiny Felder shares his first big-league at-bat and being named National League Play of the Week as a reserve outfield.

Discover the legend of "the Rembrandt of baseball card photographers". Doug's lens has captured baseball history over six decades.

Meet pitcher Maybelle Blair and utility fielder Shirley "Hustle" Burkovich, who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, aka "A League of Their Own." Now in their 80s and 90s, they travel the US advocating for girls and women to coach, play, or umpire baseball.

Meet a former singer-songwriter who opened for Springsteen that's been umpiring around the world for almost forty years. Did we mention she's a woman?

Sportswriter Ron Rapoport sheds light on the man behind the myth, Hall of Famer Ernie Banks.

Nancy Finley, Oakland A's owner Charlie O. Finley's 12-year-old niece, discovers she's not in Kansas City after a move to gritty Oakland, CA.

Jim "Mudcat" Grant shares a story about a surprise invitation to breakfast by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.