Jan. 20—HIGH POINT — Luke Appling, a High Point native and member of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, is finally going into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Lucius Benjamin Appling, who ...

Every American League pitcher has had to get acquainted, early in his big-league career, with a droopy, lackadaisical figure who plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and who comes up to the plate ...

Sept. 3, 1936 — Luke Appling’s then-club record 27-game hitting streak ended in Boston, courtesy of Red Sox pitcher Wes Farrell. Appling's record would stand until 2004, when Carlos Lee broke it by ...

>Luke Appling, 55: election to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Famed, in approximately equalmeasure, for his 1) batting (.310 lifetime average), 2) versatility (he played first, second, shortstop and third), ...

If you’ve got time on your hands or miscellaneous mindless tasks in front of you, this recording from archive.org of a 1936 game between the Cubs and White Sox (part of the old “City Series”) is ...