Gregory Kitchen didn’t think much of the ball at first. It sat largely forgotten for decades, an old, scuffed relic from another era. He acquired it in New York in 2006 in a $1,500 trade with a fellow ...

Two men pleaded guilty last week to federal charges stemming from a 15-year operation that prosecutors said bartered fake baseballs and bats purportedly signed by Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner ...