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This May 18, 2017, photo shows Dan Imler, vice president of SCP Auctions, with the bound volume of the 1876 constitution that founded the National League of Professional Base Ball and the modern business of big league sports, that is going up for sale at SCP Auctions in Laguna Niguel, Calif. A replica of a period baseball is at left; a modern ball is at right. SCP Auctions expects the papers to draw millions when the auction starts Wednesday, May 24. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Big league baseball’s founding documents to be auctioned

By ANDREW DALTON - Associated Press

FILE - At left, Pete Rose is shown in the Washington Wild Things dugout before a Frontier League baseball game against the Lake Erie Crushers in Washington, Pa. At right, in a June 15, 2016, file photo, Miami Marlins' Ichiro Suzuki looks on from the dugout during a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, in San Diego. With two hits Wednesday, June 15, 2016, Suzuki reached 4,257 in the Japanese and North American major leagues, surpassing Rose’s total in Major League Baseball. So does Suzuki now hold the mark players should aspire to, or does Rose remain baseball’s hit king? (AP Photo/File)

Suzuki’s milestone raises familiar questions about context

By NOAH TRISTER - Associated Press

Miami Marlins left fielder Ichiro Suzuki (51) in between pitches with Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos (40) during the fourth inning of their baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington, Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘Around the horn’ tradition continues after strikeouts, even as baseball evolves

By Tom Schad - The Washington Times

In this photo made Tuesday, March 11, 2014, an 1870 Philadelphia Athletics season ticket is held by Troy Thibodeau, manager of the Saco River Auction House in Biddeford, Maine. The card is 10 years older than anything on display at the Hall of Fame Museum. The auction house is getting a reputation for selling some of the nation's oldest baseball memorabilia. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Baseball auction offers ticket to 1867 convention

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press