baseball

North Dakota has a long history with baseball. It was a cheap and easily-organized form of entertainment for people living on isolated farms and ranches, giving them the chance to gather for a social event. Those early games tended to be a matter of local pride, with neighboring towns competing. When the railroad arrived, teams began traveling. One of the biggest rivalries was between Grand Forks and Fargo.

North Dakota has a rich baseball history. Legends of the game, including Roger Maris and Satchel Paige, have a connection to the state.

Baseball, America’s sport, was everywhere in earlier years, dotting local newspapers as professional and amateur teams played throughout the year. On this date in 1876, the National League was established at a meeting in New York, and it remains the oldest major-league professional baseball organization in the United States.

On this date in 1998, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire shattered the longtime home run record set by North Dakota’s Roger Maris. With his historic homer electrifying baseball fans, both McGwire and Maris were front page news.

Today is the birthday of baseball great, Darin Erstad of Jamestown. He was the #1 overall pick in the Junior Amateur Draft in 1995, when he was chosen to…

By the late 1800s, baseball was wildly popular. Every town had a team that competed against neighboring towns for local bragging rights. Women were not…

On this date in 1915, baseball fans were abuzz as spring training began in Grand Forks. William "Billy" Fox had freshly taken up the role as manager of…

It was on this date in 1961 that a shy baseball player from Fargo stunned the sports world in one of the most anticipated games ever played. Roger Maris…

The early Twentieth Century has been called “Baseball’s Golden Age.” According to one historian, “From start to finish, through thick and thin, baseball…

Earlier this week, we heard about a 1909 trial in Jamestown that was the talk of the state as Folks involved with a baseball game had been put on trial…