Mark "The Bird" Fidrych got his first major league start in May 1976 when the scheduled starter got sick. His success on the mound that summer and inimitable style captured the country's imagination.

Time flies. It's been almost fifty years since Mark Fidrych's rookie season, when he took the baseball and card-collecting world by storm. Nicknamed "The Bird" because of his resemblance to Big Bird, ...

This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Mark Fidrych died this week in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. He was only 54. The news threw me into a time machine and flashed me back ...

No reason should be required to celebrate the late Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the down-to-earth yet larger-than-life Northborough native who became a national phenomenon as a rookie pitcher for the ...

WORCESTER — As an 18-year-old intern with the Baltimore Orioles in 1977, Dr. Charles Steinberg remembers when Detroit Tigers phenom pitcher Mark Fidrych came to Memorial Stadium to pitch on the Fourth ...

Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1976, the nation had a big party, celebrating its 200th birthday with fireworks, parades and cookouts. As the country’s 250th birthday bash on July 4 is approaching, ...