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Baseball's best fall prey to short series

Damned purists! Whatta they know? Well, they know that after another 162-game regular season, baseball's two best teams, including the 102-win Phillies, will not be playing in the World Series. Again. They know that the World Series, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball-Brewers overtake Cardinals in NL series opener

The Milwaukee Brewers flexed their power-hitting muscles to claim a 9-6 comeback victory over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday in the opener of the National League Championship Series. The Brewers fought back from a 5-2 deficit [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball still takes back seat to NFL

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig went to the Milwaukee Brewers playoff game Sunday, which should come as no surprise since he once owned the team. While there, he also found himself doing what most other sports fans were doing over the wee [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

RPT-Baseball-Phillies take 2-1 series lead over Cards

* Francisco steps in and steps up * Phillies one win from reaching NLCS (refiles to fix day) Philadelphia's Ben Francisco blasted a pinch-hit home run to give his team a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday and move the P [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball: Royal treatment for Hollingsworth

My Wife, Jeannine, and I celebrated our anniversary Monday night with a nice dinner at a local restaurant and a trip to the theater to see “Moneyball,” an interesting movie made even better if you are a baseball fan. As I w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball Manager Builds Winning Team Unconventionally in 'Mo...

Brad Pitt is getting rave reviews and there's 'buzz' about a possible Oscar nomination for his performance in a new film set inside American professional baseball. Moneyball is based on a true story. "There are rich teams [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

On Baseball: The choice remains clear: Get better or get bou...

A chef for one of the ritzy sections of Fenway Park joined me in the elevator Wednesday, hours before the final Red Sox home game of the regular season. "It's weird. I don't know if I'll have a job after tonight," sh [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

USC baseball recruiting class rated nation's best

The two-time defending NCAA champion South Carolina baseball team signed the nation's top recruiting class, according to Collegiate Baseball. The Gamecocks signed 16 high school prospects and had five junior college transfers in this [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Yankees’ Mariano Rivera May Have Set Unbreakable Baseball Sa...

Mariano Rivera helped define the ninth-inning closer role with the New York Yankees and now holds a record that Major League Baseball historians said may stand forever. With 602 saves over 17 seasons, Rivera broke Trevor Hoffman’s r [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Canadian baseball team roster set for World Cup, Pan Am Game...

Canada's national men's baseball team will rely on a mix of youth and experience for two major tournaments next month. The 24-man roster, which was announced Friday, includes nine players who will be making their national team deb [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball-Phillies first to seal spot in playoffs

Roy Halladay pitched his first shutout of the season as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Houston Astros 1-0 on Wednesday to become the first team to book a place in the Major League Baseball playoffs. The red-hot Detroit Tigers could be [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball pennant races slow to a tedious crawl

Hello, front desk? Please set the wake-up call for October. All right, maybe it's not quite that bad. In the American League West, the Los Angeles Angels are stalking the Texas Rangers, even if half the nation has to stay up past Leno [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Pak baseball player leaves for South Korea

Pakistan baseball captain,Ihsanullah left here on Monday for South Korea to attend a two-month long high-level coaching on scholarship offered to him by LG Twins Baseball Club of South Korea. Ihsanullah, a pitcher from Pakistan Army was p [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball games, especially Yankees-Red Sox games, have becom...

The great Red Holzman was talking once about what pro basketball was like in the old days, before the 24-second clock, for guards like him and his old City College teammate, Sonny Hertzberg. Holzman ended up in the pros with the Roches [...]