Bob Clevenhagen, known to many as the Michelangelo of the mitt, has been designing baseball gloves since 1983 for the Gold Glove Company. Whitney Curtis / Bloomberg via Getty Images At spring training ...

The men on the 70-and-over senior slow-pitch softball team may be over the hill, but they’re definitely not under it. And, they’re certainly not ready to let their baseball gloves or bats gather dust.

The gloves come with history. They show up at Chris Petroff’s home in suburban Phoenix, a few deliveries per day, UPS, FedEx and regular mail. He will learn the biography of each one. Petroff can ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — It was family ties that got Kevin Leick of Marshfield, Wis., into the game he loves 35 years ago. His father and older brothers played men’s fastpich softball, the ...

It was a schoolyard sport so common it once rivalled cricket as the most popular in Australia. But now grassroots teams are ...