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Slain baseball players honoured by P.E.I. school

A high school in Charlottetown played a memorial game of catch Monday to honour two promising baseball players who were gunned down in a horrific murder-suicide in Alberta last week. Dozens of staff and students put on baseball gloves and [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Something's Fishy _ Marlins Become Big Players

Jeffrey Loria watched the news conference from the second row, beaming like a proud parent as Heath Bell talked about his new love for the Miami Marlins and reuniting with Jose Reyes. Trying to make a quick getaway, the owner was surround [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball to add layer of wild-card playoffs

Baseball closed its meetings of general managers and owners in Milwaukee on Thursday with a pair of historic announcements. Baseball will add a second wild-card team in each league as soon as next year, or in 2013 at the latest. And in 20 [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Three American Jewish baseball players to help Israeli team

Three Jewish former major leaguers will help Israel field a competitive team in next year’s World Baseball Classic. Shawn Green, Brad Ausmus and Gabe Kapler met this week in Los Angeles with Israeli baseball officials and promised t [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

VERLANDER SELECTED PLAYER OF YEAR IN MLBPA VOTE

Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander has been selected player of the year in voting by the Major League Baseball Players Association, becoming the second pitcher to earn the honour. Verlander beat out Boston first baseman Adrian Gonzale [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Braves: Playoff teams don’t lose series to Nats, Marlins, Me...

On statistics-driven websites like CoolStandings, the Braves are still given a 65.7 percent chance of winning the National League wild card spot, almost twice the percentage of the St. Louis Cardinals (34.3). But if this is about odds, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 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

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

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

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

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

Sleepy baseball players take a hit in batting average, study...

What makes baseball players like Jose Reyes of the New York Mets and Adrian Gonzalez of the Boston Red Sox such good hitters? It might have something to do with the time of day (or night) when the umpire yells, “Play ball!” [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Anteaters, Wahoos play similar styles of baseball

Virginia scored 29 runs in its three regional games last weekend, and UC Irvine had 20 in its three, offensive explosions that any pitching staff would love to have. For these squads, though, it also works the other way. They boast pitche [...]

Posted On : Jun, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Payette baseball carries Killebrew legacy into State playoff...

"Harmon Killebrew Day" in Payette didn't begin until 2005, after baseball coach Tracy Bratcher walked into principle (and then-Mayor) Mark Heleker's office and asked, "Why aren't we doing more with Harmon Killeb [...]