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Major League Baseball has a dearth of high-profile stars. Is the problem a down cycle, or is it the sport itself? Major League Baseball has a dream matchup for the World Series as two of its marquee franchises, the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers, face off. But oddly it also has a problem: Most people, even sports fans, might struggle to name a single player on the field. The percentage of Americans who say baseball is their favorite sport to watch is at a low. Fewer baseball players have crossed over into wider popular culture than did...

With the Major League Draft just days away (June 4-6), I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the draft booms, busts, and never-were’s.

In the end, Ken Griffey, Jr. was wise enough to take the hints that not even a boundless love for the game was enough to make him the Kid once again. The toothy, hat-backward imp with the lyrical swing, the hunger for roaming center field like it was his personal playground, and the ownership of baseball's 1990s had become the memory nobody wanted to lose even as the man looked time in the face and attempted the closest Griffey could ever get to defiance. The team that raised him, the team he is still believed to have rescued, brought him...

Griffey provides All-Star gratitude for home run ball By Bryan Burwell Of the Post-Dispatch 07/06/2004 Sports Columnist Bryan Burwell His cover was blown and he knew it. Ken Griffey Jr. was desperately trying to go incognito as he walked off the field nearly three hours before Tuesday night's Cardinals-Reds game. The Cincinnati All-Star center fielder had just completed a little taped television interview and now he tried to make a quick and clean break for the visitors clubhouse in the bowels of Busch Stadium. But his route to the dugout tunnel was blocked by a tight little contingent of pencil...