For the first time since 2009, the New York Yankees have made it to the World Series, where they will play an erstwhile favorite team of New York Jews, the Los Angeles Dodgers, formerly of Brooklyn.

Now that this year's remarkable post-season baseball feast has at last come to a close and most of us can return to our regular bedtimes, the prolific baseball writer David Pietrusza offers up a ...

Writing a biography of the notoriously secretive Arnold Rothstein, a rum-and-drug–running, bookmaking loan shark who became one of the richest men in the world, is a gamble that, for the most part, ...