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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

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

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

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

Ex-baseball player Tyler Johnson could shine on OSU footbal...

Former professional baseball players have been good to the Oklahoma State football program. “We’ve been very lucky with some of those pro baseball players coming back,” Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said. All-Big 12 qua [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Players and public hit out as baseball season begins

It's an old and often angry debate: during a national tragedy with thousands displaced, a nation traumatised and bodies still being counted, should athletes retire from the field in respectful silence – or play on? Japan's [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball's Oldest Living Former Player, Tony Malinosky, Dies...

Tony Malinosky, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, has died, the Los Angeles Dodgers said. He was 101. Malinosky passed away Feb. 8 in Oxnard, California, the team said on its website. Malinosky, a former infiel [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball coach donates kidney to his player

When Kevin Jordan was deciding where to play college baseball, the commitment of Wake Forest coach Tom Walter to his players helped sway him toward Winston-Salem. Even before taking his first swing, Jordan has learned how deep that devot [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Wake Forest baseball coach donates kidney to player

With an undergraduate enrollment of fewer than 4,500 students, Wake Forest is one of the smallest schools to compete at the major college level. Wake's athletic department takes pride in the sense of family its modest size creates. T [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball player, 14, dies after leaping from tenth floor of ...

A freshman baseball player stunned his team-mates by jumping to his death from the 10th floor of a hotel. Matthew Mezza, 14, suddenly left in the middle of baseball practice and dashed across the street to a nearby hotel in Santa Monica, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

2 MTSU baseball players face rape charges

Two MTSU baseball players, Conlon Palo and Damian Seguen, have been charged with rape and dismissed from the team.Palo, 18, and Seguen, 21, were arrested by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, according to an incident [...]