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Florida Atlantic baseball team shaves heads to support cance...

Florida Atlantic’s baseball players, coaches and staff have shaved their heads to support the cancer-stricken brother of a teammate. Pitcher Jake Meiers’ brother, Cody, was recently diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Pro baseball team withdraws plans to build stadium at Clawso...

America’s Pastime, at a professional level, does not have a future in the middle of a residential neighborhood at Clawson City Park. Summit Professional Baseball has withdrawn a proposal to build a new baseball stadium for a team [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

The Dugout: Jim Thome gives baseball fans a reason to cheer

Thanks to baseball’s lengthy steroid era, it’s nearly impossible to discern between athletes whose exploits were a result of natural talent and those who benefitted from performance-enhancing drugs. It’s a dark blotch in [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Starling ready to get started on baseball career

Outfielder Bubba Starling buttoned the Royals’ No. 1 jersey Wednesday afternoon at an introductory news conference in the crowded interview room adjacent to the clubhouses on the first floor at Kauffman Stadium. “How’ [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Rookie hazing changing in baseball, too

Reds outfielder Chris Heisey wasn't surprised to see the schoolgirl outfit hanging in his locker, his humbling attire for the start of a late-season road trip. Welcome to the majors, rookie. "I felt it wo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball, softball teams from South Tampa land in Junior Lea...

Talk about a power couple. She plays softball. He plays baseball. Sydney Socher, 15, and boyfriend Carter Leslie, 14, are both catchers. Their teams both play at a park in Palma Ceia. And, early Friday, both of them hopped on airplanes [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball's jerks the stuff of legend

Jocks are generally jerks, especially in baseball. Which makes Jose Bautista’s reaching out to a dying fan so refreshing — and surprising. The Jays slugger phoned lovely Doris Rudy at a Kitchener hospital to [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Young Japanese Baseball Players Meet Secretary of State, Cal...

Nearly two starting lineups-worth of young Japanese baseball and softball players assembled at the U.S. State Department Tuesday to kick off a three-week sports exchange. They met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Hall of Fame base [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

On the Phillies: Baseball got suspension all wrong

If you thought Joe Garagiola was funny, you ought to see his son. Joe Garagiola Jr. is, for the time being at least, baseball's vice president in charge of standards. He lowered his badly on Monday, suspending the Phillies' Shane [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Yankees simply playing good, solid baseball

The New York Yankees are doing everything possible to put the matter of their earlier difficulties against the Boston Red Sox not simply in the rearview mirror, but beyond that: out of sight, up in the attic, in storage, gone, vanished, d [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball a Weeks family tradition dating to Negro Leagues

During baseball season, 83-year-old Victor Weeks usually can be found sitting in front of the television at his Orlando, Fla., home. He has been blind nearly four decades, but Victor never misses a game involving either the A's or the [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Sunday Scorecard: Baseball needs to (finally) get instant re...

There have been plenty of bad calls in the long, sorted history of Major League Baseball. There was Don Denkinger's blown call in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series. More recently, there was the CC Sabathia near-no-hitter in Pittsburgh d [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Getting his kicks through baseball

The 2011 Peninsula Oilers feature athletes from all corners of the country - California, Iowa, Florida, New Mexico. But no one traveled as far as Gabriel Asakura for a chance to play on the central Kenai Peninsula. Asakura, 22, was [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Ugandan Baseball Team Strikes Out on US Visas

It could have been one of the inspiring and heartwarming stories that make sports so endearing. Instead, the fate of a youth baseball team from Africa is mired in controversy. The baseball team from Kampala, Uganda, was set to become the [...]