STUDY: Playing Video Games Can Make You Better at Baseball
AP Images Mom may not buy this when you tell her, but it's true: new research out of the University of California, Riverside, suggests that playing a certain [...]
Ask a STACK Expert: I Need to Lower My 60 Yard Dash for Baseball. How Can I Do This?
Q: Since you know more than I do about speed and agility, I have a question. I play baseball and I'm trying to get my 60 lower. Currently I'm a...
Winning Formula for the Final Month of Fantasy Baseball
He’s the total package at third base, and he leads one of the hottest teams in baseball in every major offensive statistical category. We’re not talking about Miguel Cabrera. Sure, [...]
7 Rules That Would End PED Use in Baseball Immediately
Photo: AP The recent suspension of Alex Rodriguez and 12 other Major League Baseball players for using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) is being heralded by some as a [...]
Baseball Summer Training Guide 2013
STACK's Baseball Summer Training Guide was created by Kevin Barr, strength and conditioning coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays, trainer of 2012 Cy Young Award winner David Price and Silver [...]
How to Prevent Baseball Imbalance and Overuse Injuries
More than 625,000 baseball injuries occur in the United States each year. The most common are shoulder, elbow, groin and hamstring injuries caused by strength or mobility imbalances from overuse. [...]
Rawlings “Defenders of the Nine” Fantasy Baseball League
With the first two weeks of Major League Baseball in the books, it's time to present the first roundup of action in the Rawlings "Defenders of the Nine" fantasy baseball [...]
4 U.S. Players to Watch in the World Baseball Classic
Some 750 ballplayers will be in uniform on opening day of the 2013 Major League Baseball season. But only a small fraction of them can say they represented their country [...]
Baseball Players Turned NFL Stars
Facing the toughest challenge of his life in the 1993 comedy The Sandlot, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez is visited in a dream by Babe Ruth—"The Great Bambino"—who proclaims, “Everybody gets the [...]
Tommy John Surgery and Baseball Pitchers
No one would’ve blamed Tommy John if he’d quit. By the 1974 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher had already played more than 10 years in the major leagues, including [...]