Oct. 6—WILKES-BARRE — Many kids growing up in the 1960s or 1970s played baseball, and when they weren't on the sandlot or Little League field, chances are they were on a front porch or at a kitchen ...

Baseball fever was running high on a Tuesday evening in late September, as it was the opening game of the American League Wild Card series between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Most fans were at home, ...

Fantasy sports have boomed over the past several decades to become a multibillion dollar industry. Go back long enough, and its roots can be traced to an 11-year-old Hal Richman rolling dice on the ...

The ‘Strat-O-Matic Baseball’ game was created by Hal Richman, who is married to the former Sheila Mednitsky of Hazleton. WILKES-BARRE — Many kids growing up in the 1960s or 1970s played baseball, and ...

Marie Roman Dowkus with her two sons, Peter and Joseph. In background is Billy O’Boyle homestead on Reynolds Street in Plymouth. WILKES-BARRE — It makes perfect sense to me that the inventor of ...