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Members of the media surround the field as the Chicago Cubs workout in preparation for the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, OH. Cubs fans know well the space between hope and disappointment. After all, they have been waiting for this day for 71 years — a lifetime. What happened in the space of those seven decades? Baseball unionized. Baseball became…

When the first game of the 2016 World Series begins on Tuesday night, every player on the field will be, as has always been the case with Major League Baseball, a man. But female ballplayers aren’t just the stuff of fiction or even wartime necessity. Case in point: the New York Female Giants, who came together in 1913. A New York Times article from that year explained that the Female…

The teams have been selected, the stadiums are getting prepped, and the 2016 World Series is so close that you can practically smell the hot dogs cooking. But the Fall Classic isn’t quite here yet, so in the meantime, let’s look back at the NCAA careers of the players on each team. Many major league players sign with the team that drafted them directly out of…

But Mr MacLean denies all blame, saying that Mr Ahmed rode down the ‘wrong part of the track’ and then, on a second attempt, ‘made exactly the same error’. “I am 100 per cent sure he made the same mistake twice,” he told the court. “I was surprised at the time. It has been on my mind for four-and-a-half years and I am absolutely positive it happened.” Tim Horlock QC…

The teams have been selected, the stadiums are getting prepped, and the 2016 World Series is so close that you can practically smell the hot dogs cooking. But the Fall Classic isn’t quite here yet, so in the meantime, let’s look back at the NCAA careers of the players on each team. Many major league players sign with the team that drafted them directly out of…

“My dad thought it was strange,” says Matveev. “He told me baseball is an American sport. So what? Soccer is English; hockey is Canadian. Older people can be a little too conservative.” In this remote place, baseball serves both as a window to the West and as a reason for hometown pride. Sugar Storm players dot the field in the caps of their favorite American teams. When I ask Matveev…

With the World Series set to begin, a glance at the rosters for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs could prompt the question, “Where have all the black baseball players gone?” When Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was asked about NFL-style national-anthem protests, he said they aren’t happening in Major League Baseball because is a “white man’s sport.” While the number of black players in baseball and baseball-playing black youths…

Bob Miller has turned the front yard of his house on Greer Avenue into a shrine for the Cubs.(Photo: Submitted) Good morning, in Memphis, where the World Series matchup poses a dilemma for a certain local baseball coach … What would you do? Casey Callaway, the baseball coach at Germantown High School, is a serious fan of the Chicago Cubs. How serious? His son is named Wrigley. That’s how serious….

12:40 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment BOSTON — Another longtime member of the Boston Red Sox baseball operations staff is leaving for the desert. Nine days after the Arizona Diamondbacks hired away general manager Mike Hazen, Amiel Sawdaye is set to become his assistant GM, multiple sources confirmed Monday night. Sawdaye has been a mainstay in the Red Sox’s amateur scouting department since 2002, most recently serving…

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With the World Series set to begin, a glance at the rosters for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs could prompt the question, “Where have all the black baseball players gone?” When Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was asked about NFL-style national-anthem protests, he said they aren’t happening in Major League Baseball because is a “white man’s sport.” While the number of black players in baseball and baseball-playing black youths…

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I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand, especially on the heels of what we saw Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, as to why NASCAR is switching the dates of the Kansas Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway races in the Chase in 2017. Next year, it will be Kansas that is an elimination race, and not Talladega. From what I’ve picked up from the grapevine is that it was switched…

“Hello, Cleveland!” as they say in the movies. The Cubs and Indians meet Tuesday in the opener of a World Series at least partly defined by their decades-long struggles and the epically elusive epic quest the winning ballclub will at last complete. There’s no need for introductions between the cities. Chicago knows Cleveland as surely as it knows itself. Cleveland knows Chicago, another notch in the Rust Belt. They share Great…

sheet music for the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”(Photo: Star file) Indiana has a rich baseball history. Not only the site of the first-ever major league baseball game ( Cleveland Forest Cities and Ft. Wayne Kekiongas on May 4, 1871), but Indiana has had five major league baseball teams throughout history, including the 1914 Federal League pennant-winning Hoosiers. Here are some other highlights of baseball’s connections to Indiana. Albert Von…

CLEVELAND — People here are trying to comprehend what has happened over these past few months, how to process a delirious and wholly unfamiliar confluence. A visitor flying in might hear a Southwest flight attendant, minutes before takeoff, declare the plane is bound for “Cleveland, the land of champions.” One might see along Prospect Avenue the construction of a television stage for a national NBA pregame show, and another one…

 There’s two weeks left in the regular season for football, and Mater Dei, Corona Centennial and St. John Bosco hold down the top three spots in the Southern Section Division 1 football poll. Here’s the link to complete rankings. In water polo, Harvard-Westlake is No. 1 and Huntington Beach No. 2 in Division 1. Here’s the link to complete rankings. Here’s the link to this week’s cross country rankings. Here’s the link…

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Official release Oct 24, 2016 2:01 PM ET