The Texas Rangers recently asked Major League Baseball (MLB) officials for the right to have Dallas Mavericks player Dirk Nowitzki throw out the first pitch at a World Series game, a request that has been denied.
Nowitzki was ...
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If four US senators have their way major league baseball players from the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers will not be using chewing tobacco during the World Series.
Health officials from St. Louis, Arlington, Texas and Illinois ...
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The 2011 World Series schedule has been set (see below), with the inaugural game between St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers taking place tomorrow at St. Louis.
The Rangers begin the best-of-seven series as narrow favorites, with odds ...
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Lance Berkman of the St. Louis Cardinals and Jacoby Ellsbury of the Boston Red Sox were announced on Thursday for the 2011 Comeback Player of the Year Awards.
The award for Berkman, 35, was well deserved hitting .301 ...
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There's good news and then there's some bad news. Theo Epstein will be put in charge of baseball operations for the Chicago Cub for at least the next five seasons. That's the good news. The bad news ...
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As the New York Yankees' season came to an end last night after a game five loss to the Detroit Tigers, Jorge Posada contemplated his future with the team. Posada is at the end of a four-year ...
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The Chicago White Sox on Thursday announced that Robin Ventura has been named the teams new manager after Ozzie Guillen left the organization last week.
The 44-year-old former player agreed to the multiyear deal with the club after ...
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After eight seasons and an epic September collapse the Boston Red Sox have released manager Terry Francona.
According to major league baseball the two men were meeting at 10 a.m. with an expected mutual agreement to be made ...
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The MLB has revealed the broadcast schedule and announcers for this weekend's playoffs. All games will air on TBS with the exception of Saturday's Tampa Bay Rays / Texas Rangers clash, which is is on TNT. All ...
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Eugenio Velez didn't get a hit in the 2011 season. Velez went 0 for 37 for the L.A. Dodgers this year, breaking an MLB record that has stood since 1936. And if you include the last few ...
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Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen has been let out of his contract after resigning from the team. Guillen's contract was set to expire at the end of the 2012 season although last month he said he ...
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Talk about bad timing, Boston Red Sox pitcher John Lackey filed for divorce in the last month from his wife Krista Lackey as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer.
According to reports Lackey filed for divorce on August ...
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Alfonso Soriano came to the Chicago Cubs after a career season netted him a $136 million eight-year contract which has been met with nothing but disappointment for Chicago Cubs fans, yet Soriano recently decided to whine about ...
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Major League Baseball (MLB) and Yahoo! announced the debut of MLB.com Full Count, a new online video offering that would allow fans to follow live MLB action throughout the remainder of the regular season.
Starting next year, MLB.com ...
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Back in June Los Angeles Angels right fielder Torii Hunter was batting .225 while dealing with a painful injury to his right quadricep and while he was contemplating a retirement at the end of the fall 2012 ...
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The boys from Huntington Beach were California dreaming Sunday afternoon after defeating Japan, 2-1, to win the 2011 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The victory marked the ninth time in the history of the LLWS ...
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MLB home run beast, and all around good guy, Jim Thome made his much anticipated debut last night with a franchise and city that is all too familiar to him: the Cleveland Indians. The Indians’ all-time leader ...
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Mike Flanagan, the 1979 Cy Young winner and former Baltimore Oriole who went on to become a team executive and broadcaster for the club, was found dead Wednesday outside his home in rural Maryland in an apparent ...
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The 2011 Little League World Series is continuing on strong today with a consolation match between New England and Europe followed by two elimination games later on in the day.
The first match of the day, the consolation ...
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So much for that dreaded vote of confidence. This is yet more proof that not much has changed with the Chicago Cubs. They may have a new owner, but things remain business as usual. Days after giving ...
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Jim Thome became the 8th MLB player to hit 600 career home runs last night. He did so against my Detroit Tigers, and he did so by actually hitting number 599 earlier in the game. Thome has ...
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Jim Hendry has had a very up and down run as the General Manger of the Chicago Cubs. The sports writer conventional wisdom is that he is one of the main reasons of that team's recent struggles ...
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