A good deal of the equipment in Curtis Mead’s locker in the visitors' clubhouse at T-Mobile Park is still the Rays’ light ...

Jim Schmakel, the Detroit Tigers' clubhouse manager for 47 years, is the thread that ties Tram and Lou to Tork and Greene.

Football, not glory, fills his servant’s heart, where the Buckeyes have always loomed large. He is a west Cincinnati native ...