Exactly 71 years ago, Ruth had a big day
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Babe Ruth was 40 years old, with a pot belly that couldn&#039;t be supported by his spindly legs and a fast-growing realization his career was over.
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The news was relegated to the back of the papers and mentioned only in a note, but the significance was impossible to ignore. On the same day San Francisco&#39;s Barry Bonds hit his milestone
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Thanksgiving Day found 92-year-old Dorothy Teves Pregil out raking leaves in her Kalihi Valley yard when the roar of a dozen motorcycles made her look up and smile expectantly as the leather-clad bunch once again delivered her hot holiday dinner.
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A 66-YEAR-OLD Romanian has become the oldest woman to have given birth, according to her doctors.
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The last time Trudy Spira was in Auschwitz, she was 12 years old. The day of liberation is my second birthday - I was reborn on that day, said Spira, who came from Venezuela with her son Ernesto, 48, to show ...
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TORONTO (CP) - It used to be that when you hit 71, you had to retire as a blood donor. No longer, Canadian Blood Services said Monday.
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The 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was marked on Thursday. Have we learnt the lessons of history?
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China marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of its late leader Deng Xiaoping Sunday with a celebration attended by top party officials in Beijing.
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His countrymen celebrated Suzuki&#39;s record-breaking hit Saturday when the Seattle Mariners outfielder broke George Sisler&#39;s 84-year-old major league mark for hits in a season.
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Around 70,000 Catholic pilgrims descended on Lourdes Monday for a mass commemorating the 150th anniversary of a series of visions of the Virgin Mary by a young French shepherdess.
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Fifty-six years after his death, Babe Ruth&#39;s baseball career is finally over. The Curse of the Bambino is dead. The Red Sox waited even longer to be emancipated - that&#39;s right, four score and six years, since last they won a World Series.
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Looking back at a 25-year old conversation with the late Padmini
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The 73-year-old former Washington Senators public address announcer was not about to let a protester ruin another big baseball day in the nation&#39;s capital.
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In shattering one of Major League  Baseball's (MLB) oldest records, Ichiro Suzuki did more than  just write his name in the history books.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Seventy-eight years ago, and a week before the 1926 British Open Championship, Samuel Ryder offered a &quot;little garden tea party,&quot; featuring champagne and chicken sandwiches for
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It&#39;s hard to believe that it&#39;s been 50 years since Willie Mays made The Catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. I didn&#39;t see The Catch on television -- I was only 11 years old -- but I&#39;ve seen the highlights of it many times.
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The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the  first home run in Yankee Stadium and help usher in 80 years of  New York Yankee dominance over his former team, the Boston Red  Sox, is going on the auction block.