Gary Carter

Lights in Montreal, Camera in New York, Gary Carter was a ballplayer of memorable action, too

America may be without royalty, but we do have the baseball Hall of Fame for the bestowal of rank and nobility. In this country, to be inducted into the Hall (the only one in sports with real gravitas) is as close as...

Shrine Time

15Years since the major league team with the game's highest-paid player on its Opening Day roster made the playoffs; the 1986 Mets won their division with top earner Gary Carter.

The first three letters of the word notwithstanding, there's very little fun in fundamentals. Still, the creators of Baseball Bunch, a half-hour TV program that aired in the early '80s, made learning the game's...