• This year’s Angels team has much in common with the 1978 team. Like this year’s team, the ’78 team had enough character to overcome all sorts of problems to become a contender and set up what would ...

Lyman Bostock seemed like he could be destined for greatness with the Los Angeles Angels. Instead, his life was cut short, as he was murdered in Gary, Indiana on this day in 1978. It seemed as though ...

Lyman Bostock was a special talent. The former Twins center fielder had enough power, speed and defensive ability to make any MLB manager drool during his playing days. By all accounts, he was going ...

There remains a sad, strange incompleteness to the story surrounding the shooting death of Lyman Bostock, even 35 years after the fact. Five years ago, Tom Rinaldi did a piece for ESPN’s “Outside the ...

There are dozens of moments to remember from Lyman Bostock's four seasons in the major leagues, the first three with the Twins (1975-77) and the last with the California Angels. Two of those are early ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Birmingham native and former major league baseball player Lyman Bostock will be the subject on Monday night's episode of Celebrity Crime Files. The show airs at 8 p.m. on TV One.

Torii Hunter is not the first exceptional center fielder to leave the Twins to sign a free-agent contract with the American League team in Anaheim, Calif. Lyman Bostock did the same on Nov. 21, 1977, ...

The MLB network is running a documentary at 7 p.m. Sunday called “The Lyman Bostock Story,” on what will be the 35-year anniversary of Bostock’s tragic shooting death. Here is a 2008 column Jill ...

A budding baseball star. A philanthropist and social activist. A devoted husband. The Lyman Bostock Jr. story can’t be told enough. Not when his magnanimous life was cut short at 27 years old by an ...