A smiling Jim "Catfish" Hunter, left, answers questions Monday, January 1, 1975 as New York Yankee president Gabe Paul listens. ASSOCIATED PRESS A most important golden anniversary passed this week.

Ray Kroc pledged to make the Padres a winner when he stepped up in January of 1974 and saved the franchise from moving to Washington, D.C. Kroc’s chance to live up to that promise came 11 months later ...

TV’s catfish hunter won’t be running this marathon at breakneck speed. The fact that Nev Schulman will participate in the TCS New York City Marathon on Nov. 3 at all is miraculous — he fractured his ...

The date is October 2, 1978. With the Yankees down two in the seventh and two runners on, a light-hitting shortstop steps to the plate at Fenway Park. After fouling a ball off his foot, he turns on ...

Travel Tar Heel Traveler: Remembering ball player Catfish Hunter Baseball great Catfish Hunter died on this day in 1999. He had an all-star-career on the mound only to die of ALS in his hometown of ...

Baseball fans are mourning the death of Jim "Catfish" Hunter. The North Carolina native died Thursday ofALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. Hunter passed away at his home in Hertford.