Ryan Howard is a big dude. At 6-foot-4, 250 pounds, his nickname in the bigs was "The Big Piece" for good reason. Baseball fans know Howard used that frame to hammer 382 career home runs and become ...

Catcher Hank Gowdy of the Braves became the first major league player to enter military service in World War I. 1939 — The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Brav ...

Here's a little baseball trivia for you: how many major league baseball players with the first name of "Ryan" have there been in baseball history?The answer is 45 ...

Ryan Howard signed a 5-year, $125 million extension yesterday. Let’s start with the obvious – he’s already an icon in Philly, he’s put together four consecutive years of Rut… ...

Former Philadelphia Phillies star Ryan Howard announced his retirement from baseball in a letter posted Tuesday on The Players' Tribune website. Howard, 38, has not played in the majors since 2016 ...

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice with his moonshot home runs when he met Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As I often do, I stopped by CBS 3 Sports Director Don Bell's desk the other night and he posed a question to me. "Let me ask you this," as we moved from one topic to another ...

Ryan James Howard attended Missouri State University before he was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the fifth round (and 140 th overall) of the 2001 amateur entry draft. He was signed by ...

Earlier this week, the Phillies gave first baseman Ryan Howard a contract extension through the year 2016. This contract makes him the second highest-paid player in baseball and seems ...

Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice with his moonshot home runs when he met Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during a monumental ...