Roger Clemens and Willie Mays have ranked among the best baseball players in a study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Washington Nationals infielder Paul DeJong always had two loves: baseball and science. Those two interests had long competed for his time, until finally they converged when he was at Illinois State.

Before the checkered flag was waved at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend, area students were treated to an unforgettable ...

Over the past decade, the Tampa Bay Rays have been one of the best organizations in Major League Baseball. The Rays' front off heavily utilizes analytics and the “science of baseball” to gain ...

"We have launched a new curriculum that is called the Science of Baseball," Alter said. "We have developed (this) in partnership with the University of Arizona Department of Engineering to do that ...

Major league baseball players can alter their hitting bats to compensate for more than just hitting style. Weather and even their own height can go into the equation to equal a home run.

But before any pitcher can throw a baseball, science reveals how the spheres are created. James Sherwood, the director of baseball research at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, knows ...

"There's science in every single thing in the sport," Balholm told a group of third, fourth and fifth graders at the Nashville school on May 9. Balholm, 24, is a catcher for The Party Animals, an ...