Over the course of his career, John Oates has released 18 studio albums as one half of the soulful pop-rock titans Hall & Oates, and today he’ll bring his seventh solo album, Oates, into the universe.

More than 70 years since she last took the mound as part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 98-year-old lesbian pitcher Maybelle Blair threw out the first pitch at the live ...