STRANGE BUT TRUE DEBUTS OF THE YEAR: Big-league life is so much harder than it looks. Just ask Royals phenom Jackson Kowar . His first big-league start, on June 7, included this seldom-seen combo ...

Top five Strange But True Extra-Inning Adventures of 2020. I know baseball’s powers that be didn’t introduce the new ghost-runner-on-second extra-inning rule in 2020 with this column in mind.

From a case of so-called “feather duvet lung” to a woman who found parasitic worms in her eye following a trail run, these medical moments are as bizarre as they are true. Here’s a look at ...

Last month, FTW shared the interesting origins of the names of 19 professional sports teams. Today, we look at 18 more strange-but-true tales, including how the Flyers got named at a Howard ...

But that's the strange-but-true "magic" of October. Really. • Travis Ishikawa has been hanging around the big leagues since 2006. He has never hit a walk-off home run in a regular-season game.

John Searles wrote the book Strange But True in 2004 — and now it's been made into a film starring Greg Kinnear and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood breakout Margaret Qualley ...

Strange, but true. Only the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans have longer tenured GM-Coach pairs, and the late-'90s records of those three teams is very telling.

HOUSTON — Monkey business? Nah, just some good clean fun. It was March 1973 and St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Scipio Spinks is photographed with his best friend: A stuffed toy gorilla. The Houston ...

Filled with twists and turns, Strange But True is based on the book by John Searles, which was named a national bestseller. Searles has also written other novels including Boy Still Missing and ...

We're venturing into the uncharted territory of literary oddities to make you wonder why you ever read ordinary books. The post Strange But True: 31 Books To Leave You Asking, “Why?” first appeared on ...