The Latest Breaking News from Babe Ruth

PHILADELPHIA — If timing is everything, then Bryce Harper is all things.

After two down years, the Astros third baseman is healthy, confident and back in form.

Even before New York Yankees’ star Aaron Judge broke a home run season record, collectors had offered seven figures to the lucky fan in the path of the ball.

NEW YORK — Jim Thome’s 14-year-old son, Landon, has come down to breakfast at the Thome household most mornings this baseball season with a question for his old man, the fearsome Hall of Fame slugger who smacked 612 home runs during his playing career:

The son of Roger Maris congratulated the Yankees outfielder on his historic accomplishment.

The Angels’ star has made the impossible an inevitability, so much so that the Yankees’ slugger has overshadowed him.

The son of Roger Maris has an idea of what MLB should do with its single-season home run records.

PITTSBURGH — Rob Shelling's vast collection of baseball bats is enough to make any memorabilia junkie drool with jealousy. There's one Babe Ruth swung while cracking a home run in the first MLB All-Star Game in 1933. Another Joe DiMaggio used during his 56-game hitting streak eight years later.

LOS ANGELES — Last week, before a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Dodgers honored employees who have worked for the organization for at least 25 years.