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Honus Wagner’s career hung in the balance. In 1901, the superstar shortstop was in his second season with his…

When Cleveland celebrated its sixth time hosting MLB’s All-Star Game last week, it might have seemed an odd event to…

George Wilson stepped out into the medieval-walled prison yard and began to walk. He was 47 years old, beaten-down,…

Toledo was a place where you could fight a man for money.

When Cleveland was awarded the 1981 MLB All-Star Game, it was a city in dire need of a boost.

History was made at the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in the Armenian capital on Saturday as Gibraltar won its…

The emergence last month of a 2016 video featuring mic’d-up Terry Collins arguing with umpire Tom Hallion not only…

Today’s World Cup coverage on Fox Sports 1 featured a short segment produced by National Geographic, in which a…

Bob Whidden got the bad news first. On June 14, 1978, Whidden was in Montreal representing the Cleveland Barons at…

The Roman Empire in the west fell for a great many reasons. We could cite a lengthy series of breakdowns in its…

The Black Death, the wave of bubonic plague that devastated Europe after 1348, marked the final end of a long period…

When we think of the Roman Empire as a physical space, cities are what come to mind. We see the huge bulk of the…

Over the last seven centuries, the Knights Templar have left the realm of history and entered the realm of pop…

As the medieval world gave way to the early modern around 1500, European warfare was utterly transformed. Mounted…

Terry Funk, along with being a legendary professional wrestler, deserves recognition as a sort of godfather of the…

When the Roman Empire disintegrated over the course of the fifth century, only half of it actually fell, the western…

Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several…

There hasn’t been genuine last-week intrigue about who would win any Tour de France since 2011, when Cadel Evans…

Recently, Netflix released the first season of GLOW, a dramedy based on the production of Gorgeous Ladies of…

No empire, from Sargon’s Akkadian Empire to the Soviet Union, lasts forever. There’s always an expiration date.