“Our goal is to open the season in China — with regular-season games — in the very near future,” MLB president Bob DuPuy told Reuters on Thursday. MLB officials are anxious to unearth baseball’s version of Yao Ming before China hosts the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. MLB’s marketing strategists are looking to strike while the iron is hot ….
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New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre told CNN that the plane that was a Cirrus SR-20 registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle.
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PONY league coaches did unthinkable — setting up a cancer victim to fail
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It is an online application that allows you to view any Major League Baseball season, split by league or division (even wild card races), as an animated, date-by-date race between the various teams you choose.The data goes back to 1901, and includes every game of every season up through yesterday (9/4/2006). Kinda cool.
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It’s only happened four times in baseball history
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Like generations of young boys before him, Ernie Homberg loves baseball cards. High prices and technology have turned children away from the hobby. This year, there’s been a push in the industry to repair the damage to the hobby. There are a lot less sets…
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Nearly a thousand disgruntled Orioles fans walked out of Baltimore’s game against Detroit en masse on Thursday, culminating a demonstration aimed at team owner Peter Angelos.
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In this year of the rookie, Anibal Sanchez came up with the best performance yet to end the longest no-hit gap in major league history. Sanchez threw a no-hitter in his 13th career start Wednesday, benefiting from three defensive gems by teammates to lead the Florida Marlins over the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0.
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The ten most embarrassing moments in baseball’s history that will live in infamy.
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