A smiling Jim "Catfish" Hunter, left, answers questions Monday, January 1, 1975 as New York Yankee president Gabe Paul listens. ASSOCIATED PRESS A most important golden anniversary passed this week.

Ray Kroc pledged to make the Padres a winner when he stepped up in January of 1974 and saved the franchise from moving to Washington, D.C. Kroc’s chance to live up to that promise came 11 months later ...

TV’s catfish hunter won’t be running this marathon at breakneck speed. The fact that Nev Schulman will participate in the TCS New York City Marathon on Nov. 3 at all is miraculous — he fractured his ...

One month after the A’s debut in the Oakland Coliseum following their move from Kansas City, they give their new fans a historic thrill. Jim “Catfish” Hunter threw a perfect game—the first in the ...

Baseball great Catfish Hunter died on this day in 1999. He had an all-star-career on the mound only to die of ALS in his hometown of Hertord (Perquimans County). Baseball great Catfish Hunter died on ...

Calvin “Catfish” Hunter, a Navy veteran who served two tours in the Vietnam War, is a lifelong hunter and a passionate fisherman.