Cooperstown, N.Y. — Contrary to popular belief, and with apologies to the late, great Abner Doubleday, the national pastime did not begin in a cow pasture here. Nor did Mr. Doubleday invent the game.

The annual journey here to baseball’s Field of Dreams has begun. By nightfall Saturday, an estimated 20,000 worshipers will have overflowed this picturesque little Mohawk village. The occasion is the ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Whether a clarion of enthusiasm or a hard-bitten cynic, every follower of baseball, the grandest game of all, should be compelled to make the pilgrimage. It’s to this pristine ...

A new era is born.

Speculation is already underway on which big-name former New York Yankee players will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame over the next year or two. Twenty-five years ago, “Mr. October ...