Chicago has secured the National League’s best record, but will they celebrate their first world series win in a century? Also, racing aboard the Schooner American Eagle, and a conversation with Michael Rosenberg, author of “War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest.”

Only A Game’s Joel Rose explores the historic pastime of handcar racing during this year’s Railroad Handcar Racing Championships in York County, Pennsylvania. Click here to see photos from his trip.

Only A Game’s Karen Given experiences the 24th annual Schooner Race in Gloucester, Massachusetts aboard Captain Foss’ Schooner, American Eagle. Click here to see more pics from the competition.

In his new book, War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest, Michael Rosenberg describes how the intense rivalry between Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes and Michigan coach Bo Schembechler during the sixties and seventies reached far beyond the football field. Only A Game’s Karen Given [...]

This week on Only A Game, Yankees fans bid farewell to their old Bronx ballyard and prepare for the new one right next door. Also, remembering the Dallas Cowboys’ wild and often uncontrollable ride in the nineties, and 1936 Olympian Jo Warren Madden recalls the Berlin Games.

Last Thursday Bill Littlefield visited with former Olympian Jo Warren Madden and others as they shared their Olympic experiences during a panel discussion at the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History in Weston, MA. Take a look at some photos from the event.

This summer Only A Game’s Ron Schachter discovered the art of pig racing during a trip to Janesville, Wisconsin. Take a look at these photos to learn more about the sport and see what happens when you put four pigs and one Oreo cookie on racing track.

From drug busts to team stabbings, author Jeff Pearlman reveals the insanity behind the 1990′s reign of the Dallas Cowboys in his new book, Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty. While Pearlman describes the team’s tremendous success on the field, it is his description of the [...]

This past Tuesday the Baseball Hall of Fame announced ten players eligible to be voted in to the Hall. While each player is exceptional in their own right, commentator Bill Littlefield tells us why fiery and animated pitcher Luis Tiant deserves a place among the greats. 

This week on Only A Game, the Tampa Bay Rays attempt to hold on to a shot at the postseason. Also, the struggling sport of harness racing trots along with help from the slots, rolling with American lawn bowlers, and a conversation with a soccer dad preparing the nest for emptiness.