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(August 3, 2015) — A beloved 9-year-old batboy for a summer collegiate baseball team died Sunday, one day after he was struck in the head with a bat. Kaiser Carlile died one day after a batter accidentally hit him with a warm-up swing. (Credit: Liberal Bee Jays) Kaiser Carlile idolized the Liberal Bee Jays from Liberal, Kansas. During the team’s National Baseball Congress World Series game Saturday night, he was accidentally…

By Jon C. Ogg August 2, 2015 10:54 am EDT A new record and personal best has been set in baseball card collecting. A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card was sold by Goldin Auctions this weekend for a whopping $330,000, and Heritage Auctions had a sample sell for $382,400. While there is no way to track privately negotiated transactions, those outside of auctions and public sales, this weekend’s PSA-graded…

Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann thought he threw an unhittable pitch. But these days, Lucas Duda is hitting everything. “It was up and in for a ball and somehow he kept it fair,” Zimmermann said of the ball Duda mashed down the line for a two-run homer — one of three home runs the Mets hit in the third inning. “I’m not really sure how it’s physically possible to hit that…

Every day, I work with corporate leaders who understand the power of business platforms to make a difference. Regardless of the specific professional missions of their companies, these executives recognize that there’s a natural social mission they can tap into that will transform their place in the world, greatly impacting their communities, employees and bottom lines. The companies that fully embrace this higher purpose open themselves up to an exciting…

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Thankfully everyone was okay from this, because Brad Keselowski’s pit stop was a total mess. The No. 2 car has had trouble with pit stops in the past, but nothing compares to running over your crew and overshooting the pit box. Here are the highlights if you can’t watch the video: One crew member dives on the hood and lets a tire roll into pit road. …

And all this on the Lord’s day. Bench-clearing altercations broke out in Cincinnati and Toronto on Sunday afternoon, as enough batters were hit that they wanted to hit back. First, Stateside: Both benches and bullpens cleared and there was some shoving in Cincinnati after Brandon Phillips was hit by a pitch by Pittsburgh left-hander Tony Watson in the eighth inning. The Pirates were leading 3-0 — the game’s final margin —…

There’s a new tradition in Bellevue: turning kids into baseball players and high school players into teachers. Video: Buddy Baseball brings together kids with Down Syndrome, metro baseball players Bellevue baseball boosters teamed up with the Down Syndrome Alliance of the Midlands to help kids become baseball stars for a day. Dozens of kids got the chance to take the field, pairing up with a varsity baseball player to learn…

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Prerace coverage of the Windows 10 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race begins this afternoon with NASCAR America on NBCSN at noon ET, followed by the Countdown To Green prerace show at 1 pm ET. You also can watch online at http://nascarstream.nbcsports.com. Host Krista Voda will anchor Sunday’s coverage alongside analyst Kyle Petty. Kelli Stavast, Dave Burns and Mike Massaro will patrol pit road. NBCSN analyst Jeff Burton and specialty reporter Rutledge Wood will also join in on the festivities. Included in…

When a fan made a one-handed catch of a foul ball while bottle-feeding his infant son during a Cubs game in late June, the video went viral and he gained international attention. Unusual catches of foul balls or home runs are a staple of sports highlights shows, and sometimes the battle in the stands for baseballs is more interesting than the game itself. But recent injuries caused by flying bats…

BT Sport were left embarrassed on the opening day of what they are hoping will be their breakthrough season after the broadcasters’ website and app struggled to cope with the demand for coverage of Sunday’s Community Shield between Arsenal and Chelsea. BT, whose £350m investment in exclusive rights to the Champions League and Europa League for the coming season has upped the stakes in their rivalry with Sky, had offered…

USA Today Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the Windows 10 400. USA TODAY Sports

China, which has 1.35 billion people, made approximately that many promises about the improved human rights in the country that would result from Beijing’s hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. After seven years of breaking those promises and creating an atmosphere more repressive than what existed prior to 2008, the Olympics are going back to Beijing. This time, it will be the 2022 Winter Games, making Beijing the first city to…

Few daily fantasy contestants enjoy following the crowd, but nobody will want to leave Sunday’s top starting pitcher out of their plans. It’s not Clayton Kershaw Day. Chris Sale and Max Scherzer aren’t taking the hill, either. Yet Jose Fernandez wasted no time working his way back into the top tier. Looking as good as new, the Miami Marlins phenom tops the chart as the day’s DraftKings building block.  …

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Is Chris Bernal baseball’s next great young slugger? Maybe! Bernal, a 12-year-old from Texas, won his age group’s Home Run Derby at the Youth Baseball Championship at Baseball Heaven on Long Island on Friday. (Yes, Baseball Heaven is a real place.) Bernal went deep in five of eight chances. On Saturday, Bernal and his Team Citius teammates took on Banditos in a tournament game. Bernal stepped into the box in…

This wasn’t exactly the going-away party Kenny Wallace had in mind, but the veteran driver made the most of a challenging final XFINITY Series start in Saturday night’s U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway. Wallace, a FOX Sports TV personality making his 547th appearance in NASCAR’s No. 2 division, finished 15th and on the lead lap after surviving two spins not of his own making. Starting seventh in the No….

LOS ANGELES — “USA. USA. USA.” The chants echo at a jam-packed Balboa Sports Park field as 16-year-old Ordray Smith drapes an American flag over his back following his team’s bronze-medal winning victory Friday against China. Autographs are next. Kids greet him with sharpies. Then it’s team photo time and his teammates embrace him with pride. His smile tells several invigorating stories. Ordray Smith signs autographs for fans at the World Games (Aaron Mills/Special Olympics…