By his own count, Pat Mercier has logged more than 5,000 games in his career as the go-to man in pinstripes.

For the first time in history, the Island Cup will be played at Fenway Park, with the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team heading to Boston this year to take on the Nantucket Whalers in the longstanding tradition.

Baseball is part of sports journalist Melissa Ludtke’s DNA, starting from the letter her grandfather wrote her mother when Ms. Ludtke was born.

With just under 10 games left in the regular season of the 2024 NECBL summer campaign, the Sharks find themselves firmly in the mix to make the playoffs.

Gathered at their usual playing field behind the Boys and Girls Club, brandishing long wooden mallets and donning floppy cloth hats, members of the Edgartown Croquet Club faced off against their counterparts and friendly rivals from Sandwich.

Island athletic coaches have sent out emails urging their players to practice social isolation and not get together for informal training sessions.

Some families go to church on Christmas. The Coogans play hockey. “I don’t remember when we started,” Will Coogan said.