In Reggie Deal’s family, when someone turns 40, they get to do something big. The Texas native’s wife toured the Amazon last year and although the Wyoming resident doesn’t turn 40 until next year, they decided if he’s ever going to reach his goal of visiting all 30 major league cities in 30 days, this was the year to do it. Read more →
Sometimes, kids don’t cooperate, as was the case last night in Baltimore when a fan of the Chicago White Sox wanted nothing to do with the thing. Read more →
Today’s lesson, courtesy of the best sport ever invented, is (a) don’t forget your roots and (b) don’t miss a chance to make a difference in some kid’s life.
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Let (s)he who has never had a day like St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Marcell Ozuna had last evening cast the first stone. Read more →
These sorts of baseball diamond incidents are a good reminder to you youth sports bosses: don’t light your field on fire because it’s wet. Read more →
Princehoward Barbecue Yee, of Falmouth, Maine, made a federal case last year out of his insistence that he be allowed to play baseball at Deering High School, which is in another school district from his residence. Read more →
We’re certainly aware that it’s fashionable these days to proclaim baseball an irrelevant and dying sport, with its staid traditions and constant stories of connecting parents, grandparents, and children. That, we will argue, is the strength it has left and to prove it, we point today to Jim Walsh’s excellent story in Southwest Journal about Read more →
Baseball doesn’t quite understand — or isn’t willing to understand — why many people have given up on it. Read more →
The Atlantic League will test out several ideas this season and it’s clear that if they work, Major League Baseball will try to convince its unions to adopt them for the big-league game. The most striking addition? Robot umpires. Sort of. Read more →
The Society for American Baseball Research has nominated a former Saint Paul Saint for a new award honoring women in baseball.
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Every once in awhile, a day comes along when a simple tweet captures everything that is good in the world.
Today is that day.
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Star Tribune sports columnist Jim Souhan has had it up to here with what baseball writers have had to endure when submitting their votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more →
There are just 19 days before pitchers and catchers report to spring training, but Major League Baseball is already in mid-season form when it comes to trying to stiff players who aren’t stars and are trying to make ends meet while pursuing a dream. Read more →
For a little less than a week, Jason Gabbert was the most hated person in Minnesota sports, based on the Star Tribune’s report of how the Minnesota Twins have banned him for a year for his aggressiveness in chasing foul balls in the nice seats behind the dugout.
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Joe Mauer doubled in his final at bat on Sunday, then gave every indication his career with the Twins is over when he caught a single pitch in the 9th inning before exiting to the cheers of a tearful hometown crowd. Read more →
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