SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — There’s plenty to cheer about in Southaven as the 26th Dizzy Dean baseball and softball World Series gets underway. About 70 boys’ baseball teams played at the Snowden Grove Complex ...

Dizzy Dean did not like Jack Miley, a columnist for the New York Daily News. Before the 1937 season, Dean, the eccentric pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, held out and demanded a new contract of ...

Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale, interviewing White Sox manager Tony La Russa in this 1981 photo, is one of eight nominees for the 2021 Ford C. Frick Award, given annually for excellence in ...

The annual Dizzy Dean World Series is in full swing. And it is expected to be an economic Home Run for the city of Southaven. More than one hundred softball and baseball teams are in town competing.

I won’t sign for no $10,000!” barked pompous Dizzy Dean last spring, scoffing at a 50% cut in the salary he had been getting from the Chicago Cubs the past two years. A few weeks later, after his ...

Jimmy Dean liked to fish on the Mississippi Coast, pictured here in Biloxi likely in the late 1960s. His grin, the braggidiocia of a mini-fish catch and a Falstaff in his hand are all classics for ...

A sure harbinger of spring for the past three years has been Dizzy Dean on the front page. For many a U. S. citizen Dizzy’s arrogant predictions and bombastic salary disputes have served as a memo ...

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Dizzy Dean at spring training in 1936. The Associated Press caption read: "With his familiar wind-up, Diz is getting ready to shove one of his high hard ones toward the plate." (AP Photo) On January ...

On February 26, 1935, Babe Ruth returned to Boston. Baseball's greatest player signed with the Braves, hoping to play for, and eventually manage, Boston's other team. The Release It was a dark, cold, ...