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Major League Baseball’s early-season celebration is about to become grander. MLB and USA Baseball announced Thursday the inaugural Trailblazer Series, a three-day girls’ baseball tournament in Compton in conjunction with Jackie Robinson Day. “In memory of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball is committed to making our sport accessible and inclusive for all those who want to play, coach or participate,” said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. “MLB and USA Baseball have…

7:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The point is to make you happy. Baseball makes me deliriously happy. Baseball, with standings and leaderboards and the whole deal, nourishes my soul. If following baseball won’t make you happy, please do something that will instead. Nobody wants you to be unhappy. But if baseball offers even the potential to make you happy, I want to help you…

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Alleman Coach: Jerry Burkhead (third year) 2016 record: 16-19 (2-8 in Big Six) Current record: 6-2 Key returnees: Chase VanDerGinst, so., C; Sam Mattecheck, so., P-CF; Tom Boland, sr., DH-1B; Jake Lange, sr., SS; Liam McConville, sr., P; Jono Berry, so., P Top newcomers: Collin Rogiers, jr, P-1B; Chris McFarland, jr., OF; Brendan Hird, jr., OF. Outlook: “With this big roster (25 players), just continue to build…

Photo Credit: Nati Harnik/AP Images Florida, the seventh-ranked team in the nation, hosted Stetson, a team that entered the game 13-17 overall, Tuesday night, playing four full innings that can only be described as an ass-beating by the visiting team. Advertisement The Hatters batted around in the second inning, had five doubles by the third, and entered the top of the fifth up 10-1—despite its ineptitude at the plate all…

All Rebekah Jones wanted was a few hand-me-down baseball uniforms for her son Daniel to wear. So the Fort Worth, Texas, mother reached out to friends and family via social media to ask whether anyone had any jerseys that might fit the 8-year-old Texas Rangers fan. Daniel was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which means that half of his heart is functioning. Mother of 4 gets lifesaving heart transplant…

All Rebekah Jones wanted was a few hand-me-down baseball uniforms for her son Daniel to wear. So the Fort Worth, Texas, mother reached out to friends and family via social media to ask whether anyone had any jerseys that might fit the 8-year-old Texas Rangers fan. Daniel was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which means that half of his heart is functioning. Mother of 4 gets lifesaving heart transplant…

Rain threatened the Opening Day game between the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers at Guaranteed Rate Field on Monday. I grew up in a baseball family — not the kind of family that insists that everyone gather round to watch the game together, or that everyone play the sport, but enough so that I knew the game well. I knew its smells, its sounds, its lingo. I knew that…

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This shouldn’t be a thing anymore, but it remains a thing because we keep making it a thing: Whenever a Major League Baseball player dares demonstrate that he enjoys his utterly enviable profession, someone, somewhere, grumbles that he needs to stop being so selfish as to revel in his own accomplishments and should instead put his head down and work harder to help his team win and respect the game….

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Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

7:41 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Finally. Opening Day. Better yet, two Opening Days. We have three games on Sunday and 12 on Monday — it will be glorious. Opening Day starter tiers: Clayton Kershaw … and then everybody else From the Dodgers ace who’s in a class by himself to a group of journeymen who we can’t believe are taking the hill for their…

USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale breaks down the story lines to watch as baseball’s regular season begins. USA TODAY Sports

5:26 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Opening Day is finally here! Well, sort of anyway, as we have a three-game slate to kick off the 2017 campaign. On behalf of the Daily Notes staff, we’re excited for the next 182 days as we have a couple of changes in store to improve your fantasy baseball experience. With so much DFS content elsewhere on the site,…

Hal Bock, an Associated Press sports writer from 1963-2004, served as chief baseball writer and columnist, and he covered 30 World Series. He is the author of ”Banned: Baseball’s Blacklist of All-Stars and Also-Rans,” published by Diversion Books. As opening day on April 2 approaches, this is an excerpt from Chapter 6, ”Stealing Cars Instead of Bases.” — Benny Kauff was a baseball dandy, a flamboyant character who marched around…

On Sunday afternoon, six teams will officially kick off the 2017 regular season, and the other 24 clubs will join them in action on the day that we’ve all been waiting for — Opening Day. Eventually every team will have the chance to play its home opener, but for the 13th straight year, one city in particular will have to observe the festivities from the sidelines, and that city is…

Let’s be honest, the most important part of fantasy baseball isn’t the draft—it’s your team’s name.  Even if you wind up in last place, you can at least save face by having a clever name. The hard part is coming up with a good one, which is why we’ve compiled a list of 101 names to choose from. Some of them are good; some of them are very bad….

Wouldn’t it be great if a bunch of new baseball books hit the shelves within minutes of the final out of the World Series? To keep us warm through the winter. Courtesy of PublicAffairs The Phenomenon April is new baseball book season, however. So in preparation for next year I suggest you stock up now, and squirrel away a few of those babies for November. Or to read a second time…