Mike Schmidt

True to his style as a Sherwin-Williams kind of guy, Ryne Sandberg won't try to describe his 16-year career as some masterwork by Picasso. He would rather not discuss it at all. "You're asking me to brag about myself," Sandberg said Tuesday when asked if...

There were 12,891 fans scattered about Comiskey Park on Thursday night. In years to come, hundreds of thousands will swear they were there to see Seattle's Mike Cameron tie a major-league record by blasting four home runs against the White Sox. Cameron,...

New Phillies third baseman David Bell has never made the All-Star team. It's not his mission in life, but deep within his heart of hearts, Bell would consider his career complete if he could make the starting lineup just once. It would be a tribute to...

Round 2 commences. But first a quick recap of the week that was in Chicago baseball: Since running the Cubs out of their own joint last weekend, the Sox took 2 of 3 from their AL Central nemeses, the Minnesota Twins, and Mark Buehrle has turned it...

This is one time when the absence of a superstar is welcome. For each of the last three years, only one player has been elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Reggie Jackson walked alone to the hallowed ground in 1993,...

Eddie Murray's timing was impeccable. On the one-year anniversary of Cal Ripken's historic 2,131st consecutive game, Murray launched his 500th home run and became only the third player in baseball history to reach both 500 homers and 3,000 hits. Murray...

The post-game celebration of the Orioles' 1983 World Series victory over the Philadelphia Phillies remains etched in traveling secretary Phil Itzoe's mind. The team ran out of champagne, and he had to find more. When the first five cases had been...