Every sport has its quirky traditions — like Indy 500 racers kissing the bricks or football players smacking each other's rears — and these habits and rituals sometimes become so synonymous with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was never a baseball player as a child, but I liked playing softball at times. I became a fan of baseball later on in life.

Baseball: not for the squeamish. In polite society, spitting is considered rude. In baseball, it's virtually mandatory. At every and any game in Major League Baseball, you're almost guaranteed to see ...

The sunflower seeds in Clark Klitenic’s mouth made him feel like a grown-up. It didn’t matter that he was only a fourth grader on one of Bethesda Chevy Chase Baseball’s select youth teams in ...

The pitcher steps back from the mound, his mitt arm extended to grab the ball from the catcher, he turns, he spits, faces the batter to focus on another pitch. The batter steps back from home plate, ...