Joe Louis gloves from 1936 loss go to Smithsonian
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The U.S. capital is known for its bruising political fights, and now gloves worn by boxing legend Joe Louis during his famous 1936 loss to Germany's Max Schmeling will call Washington home.
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Nine art objects, including a piece dating from more than 1,000 BC, have been stolen from a ceramics gallery at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, the museum said.
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A baseball memorabilia collector is parting with the highlights of his Barry Bonds collection, saying the Giants star treated him poorly during a federal investigation into sales of Bonds collectibles.
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Former St. Louis Brown Rollie Stiles, believed to be the oldest former major leaguer, has died. He was 100.
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A seminal set of vitrines by Joseph Beuys, long desired by the museum, previously belonged to a collector and friend of the artist.
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The boxing ring at Madison Square Garden, where Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali plied their trade, went down for the count on Wednesday.
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CHANTILLY, Virginia - Yesterday, the Smithsonian took the wraps off a new hangar where visitors can get close to a space shuttle. The space shuttle Enterprise is now on exhibit, the museum&#39;s second-largest artifact after the Concorde.
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In 1939, a young Joe Louis fought a heavyweight title bout against close friend John Henry Lewis, a longtime light heavyweight champion.
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An original, unaltered-for-minor-leagues New York Yankees uniform worn by Mickey Mantle in 1963 will be sold in a public auction and could fetch &#36;100,000 or more, according to Heritage Galleries of Dallas.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press writer  HOUSTON  It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.   In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a spare glove when he went outside for the first time.
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Joe DiMaggio&#039;s 1947 AL Most Valuable Player award fetched more than &#36;280,000 Friday during the first day of an auction of his memorabilia.
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1908 &#151; Bob Rhoads of the Indians pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox for a 2-1 victory in Cleveland.
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A Honus Wagner baseball card has been sold for a record $2.8 million, a little more than six months after it was bought for a then-record $2.35 million. Referred to as the Mona Lisa of baseball cards, it is in the best condition of the few known T206 Wagner cards, released in 1909 by the American Tobacco Company. It was purchased by an unidentified private collector.
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Back in the days when the Washington Senators were losers, which was often, there was a saying: &quot;First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.
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New York Times News Service - 10/21/04. NEW YORK - They had been reliable caretakers of a cosmic curse, feasting for decades on the gift that kept on giving: Babe Ruth, purchased from the
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TO PARAPHRASE Oscar Wilde, losing one may be regarded as misfortune but to lose two could look like carelessness. Edvard Munchâs paintings have been targeted again by thieves after an armed gang yesterday
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PARISâTwo diamonds together worth about $18 million disappeared from an antique dealers&#39; show at Paris&#39;s Louvre museum complex yesterday, in an apparent robbery while the person manning the stand was absent.