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During the summer, San Rafael’s Albert Park baseball stadium typically draws around 450 people to watch the minor-league San Rafael Pacifics. On this Tuesday evening, though, there are close to 900 for an independent Pacific Association game against the Vallejo Admirals. There’s a handful of local broadcast news crews as well—but their cameras aren’t trained on the field. Instead, all eyes are on a small monitor at the right edge…

Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline is at 3 p.m. Friday, so it’s the last time this season that teams can trade players without having them clear waivers. It’s usually a hectic day, but then again, it’s been a crazy week. Here is what has gone down on Friday: Toronto continued to make trades, adding relief pitcher Mark Lowe: There was speculation that they might get outfielder Ben Revere, too: Minnesota got…

The Toronto Blue Jays traded several promising young players to the Detroit Tigers for standout pitcher David Price this week. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Every year at the end of July, Major League Baseball teams look at their rosters and their records and make a choice. Do they go out and acquire talented veteran players, who would improve their teams as they make a playoff run this year, even if that means giving…

The baseball card, sold to an anonymous buyer, had remained in the family of Archibald McMahon, an outfielder for the Atlantic Base Ball Club of Brooklyn. The Atlantics were a founding member of baseball’s first organized league, the National Association of Base Ball Players, and reigned as champions from 1859 through 1861, according to Dallas-based Heritage Auction officials. Among the other players depicted on the card is Richard “Dickey” Pearce, who went on to become one of…

MIAMI Ace right-hander Jose Fernandez is unbeaten and perhaps stronger than ever after recovering from elbow surgery. Giancarlo Stanton remains one of baseball’s top power hitters. Dee Gordon is among the game’s leaders in batting average and stolen bases. Adeiny Hechavarria has become an All-Star shortstop. And the Miami Marlins are still in the midst of a disastrous season. ”We need more,” Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill said….

Want Backheel Breakfast in your inbox? Sign up for the email version here. Good news for fans of German football in America: FOX Sports has you covered. After several years of mediocre coverage on hard-to-get GolTV, the broadcast rights for the Bundesliga got snapped up by FOX for the next few seasons. The network unveiled their coverage plan on Thursday, and it pretty much kicks ass. FOX Sports 1…

Most of the millions of numbers uttered on Sports Phone are long forgotten — scores of games no one cares about now, results that led to ill-fated wagers and shaped standings from another millennium and another world. But for many New York-area sports fans of a certain age, seven digits are seared in memory, a phone number that resonates still: 976-1313. …

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During the summer, San Rafael’s Albert Park baseball stadium typically draws around 450 people to watch the minor-league San Rafael Pacifics. On this Tuesday evening, though, there are close to 900 for an independent Pacific Association game against the Vallejo Admirals. There’s a handful of local broadcast news crews as well—but their cameras aren’t trained on the field. Instead, all eyes are on a small monitor at the right edge…

By John Montone, 1010 WINS Every kid who grew up loving baseball in the 1960’s knew this; Mickey Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956 with 52 Home Runs, 130 RBIs and a .353 batting average.  But what was The Mick’s WAR? As a grumpy old baseball fan who’s getting grumpier by the day, I probably should have stopped reading the statistical analysis of the Troy Tulowitzki-Jose Reyes trade as…

Choosing from two authoritarian countries to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has favored the one that lacks snow, water, or winter sports: Beijing. The other choice was Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. The committee made the decision at a session in Kuala Lumpur on Friday (July 31). In a last-minute statement before the vote, Chinese president Xi Jinping appeared in a pre-recorded video to sway…

During the summer, San Rafael’s Albert Park baseball stadium typically draws around 450 people to watch the minor-league San Rafael Pacifics. On this Tuesday evening, though, there are close to 900 for an independent Pacific Association game against the Vallejo Admirals. There’s a handful of local broadcast news crews as well—but their cameras aren’t trained on the field. Instead, all eyes are on a small monitor at the right edge…

(Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images) Mo’ne Davis may be only 14, but she’s already become a bona fide sports star, landing the cover of Sports Illustrated and an ESPY award for her performance in the Little League World Series last summer. While she’s likely pleased with her success so far, she’s not pleased with how the broadcast world treats women’s sports. In particular, Davis has a problem with the lack of women’s…

A boat glides down the Charles River, which may have hosted Olympic events, as Boston’s bid to host the 2024 games died Monday morning. | Credit: Steven Senne / Associated Press The snow began to fall across New England in late January. By the time the blizzards finished pummeling the region, more than 90 inches had accumulated in a month’s time. Just before it began, the United States Olympic Committee tapped…

During the summer, San Rafael’s Albert Park baseball stadium typically draws around 450 people to watch the minor-league San Rafael Pacifics. On this Tuesday evening, though, there are close to 900 for an independent Pacific Association game against the Vallejo Admirals. There’s a handful of local broadcast news crews as well—but their cameras aren’t trained on the field. Instead, all eyes are on a small monitor at the right edge…

During the summer, San Rafael’s Albert Park baseball stadium typically draws around 450 people to watch the minor-league San Rafael Pacifics. On this Tuesday evening, though, there are close to 900 for an independent Pacific Association game against the Vallejo Admirals. There’s a handful of local broadcast news crews as well—but their cameras aren’t trained on the field. Instead, all eyes are on a small monitor at the right edge…

On Friday the International Olympic Committee will decide whether Almaty in Kazakhstan or the Chinese capital Beijing will host the 2022 winter Olympics. Both countries are human-rights nightmares. No matter which city wins, the Olympic movement loses. Originally the IOC had numerous suitors. But bids for the Games melted away. Voters in Munich, Stockholm, Krakow, and Graubunden, Switzerland, said thanks but no thanks to the Olympics, citing high costs, low…

A preliminary document posted to the SCOOG website last year, seemingly by accident, revealed a plan with four clusters—Downtown and Expo Park, Westwood and the Westside, Long Beach, and Avalon—and dozens of existing venues. It doesn’t show any new infrastructure beyond what looks like a handful of ferry stops. In any case, by 2024, the city is set to have completed four sizable transit projects: the Crenshaw Line, the LAX Airport Connector,…

Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found. An AP analysis of water quality revealed dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues – results that alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in…