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Baseball: Peter O'Malley wants to own the Los Angeles Dodger...

Peter O'Malley starts each day as one of the first customers at a downtown Starbucks. That's a 5:30 a.m. cup of coffee if you're keeping score. O'Malley, whose family was longtime owner of the Dodgers before selling to Fox [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball announcer Provus credits Uecker for sounds of silen...

Unlike his deal in Milwaukee, where he was employed by WTMJ-AM (620), baseball radio broadcaster Cory Provus will by an employee of the Minnesota Twins, not the radio station that carries Twins games, KSTP-AM (1500). After three years [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball tenant sought for city stadium

City staff recommended in a report released Monday that councillors seek offers to lease the 18-year-old facility in light of a competing offer from Beacon Sports Capital Partners for minor league baseball. The city is also undertaking a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball eyes new $1B TV contract in off-season

The Major League Baseball season just ended, but the league is already weighing plans for a new television contract potentially worth more than $1 billion. MLB’s current deals with ESPN, Fox and TBS expire after the 2013 season, and [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Cardinals win baseball World Series

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — The St. Louis Cardinals were crowned World Series champions for the 11th time in franchise history after routing the Texas Rangers 6-2 in game seven. Allen Craig blasted a home run and ace Chris Carpenter scatt [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Cardinals make no errors to take lead in baseball's World Se...

Once again it's an all-US playoff for supremacy in baseball's World Series, with the St Louis Cardinals taking a 2-1 lead against the Texas Rangers thanks to a bravura display of hitting from Albert Pujols, who hit three home runs [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Texas nun keeps faith in Rangers, baseball

Sister Frances Evans (above left), 85, has been cheering for the Texas Rangers ever since the team moved west from Washington, D.C., in 1972. She spoke with The Times before attending Game 5 of the World Series in Arlington on Monday n [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball Needs Its Own '9-9-9' Plan

This fall, millions of Americans have been flipping channels to stay abreast of two distinct forms of competition: Major League Baseball's 2011 postseason and the Republican presidential debates. The baseball competition has come d [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Techno-hapless baseball stumbles into irrelevance

Imagine using your iPhone to take video of a rotary phone. That’s how we felt watching Fox’s World Series coverage with its heat-sensitive cameras, virtual strike zones and super slo-mo cameras tracking the 19th-century sensib [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Former baseball star makes plea deal in auto thefts

Former baseball great Lenny Dykstra reached a deal with prosecutors, pleading no contest Wednesday to three counts of grand theft auto and filing a false financial statement, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Longhorns dismiss Etier from baseball team

Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido announced Monday that infielder Jordan Etier has been kicked off the team following a weekend arrest for evading arrest and possession of marijuana. Etier is a two-year starter for the Horns and would ha [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Texas Rangers rewriting baseball history

"Legends are born in October" is Major League Baseball's postseason marketing slogan this fall. And it's as fine and true as, well, a Nelson Cruz home run in an edge-of-your chair playoff game. The Texas Rangers though [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball notes: Ellsbury, Berkman win MLB comeback awards

Lance Berkman of the St. Louis Cardinals and Jacoby Ellsbury of the Boston Red Sox are baseball's comeback players of the year. Ellsbury, who played 18 games in 2010 because of injuries, won the American League award. The centerfielde [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Tigers claw back into Major League Baseball series

The Detroit Tigers clawed their way back into the American League championship series with a 5-2 win over Texas thanks to strong pitching from Doug Fister and a Miguel Cabrera home run. Fister pitched effectively into the eighth inning an [...]