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CLOSE x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sport’s Bob Nightengale breaks down the teams to watch at this year’s World Baseball Classic. USA TODAY Sports Israel players pose for photographs with the team mascot.(Photo: Chung Sung-Jun, Getty Images) JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is the big surprise of the World Baseball Classic, upsetting three teams, generating buzz and offering a mascot like no other — “The Mensch on the Bench.” Back home,…

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8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Kansas City Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer is a really good major league player. He is rich, talented and handsome, an absolute rock star in Kansas City. And yet, beneath the polished veneer, is a work ethic learned from his father, Mike, who recently retired after 29 years as a firefighter, and his mom, Ileana, who escaped from Cuba…

From Staff Reports Southside 7, Haltom City (Texas) 2 BASEBALL – The Southside Mavericks got a pair of needed victories Friday at the Justin Northwest Tournament in Fort Worth.  Brock Thibodeaux wiggled out of trouble for much of the game and got plenty of run support in the opener as Southside defeated Haltom City, Texas, 7-2, for its initial win of the season.  Kinner Brasher pitched…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment MIAMI — Retired manager Jim Leyland was back at his familiar perch on the dugout steps Friday night, looking tense as he watched his U.S. team go hitless until the sixth inning and flirt with a devastating defeat before pulling out a 10th-inning win in its first game at the World Baseball Classic. “Now you know why I’m not managing anymore,” Leyland…

CLOSE x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sport’s Bob Nightengale breaks down the teams to watch at this year’s World Baseball Classic. USA TODAY Sports Adam Jones reacts after hitting a walkoff RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning to beat Colombia 3-2.(Photo: Logan Bowles, USA TODAY Sports) MIAMI – Breaking down Friday’s Pool C game of the World Baseball Classic between Colombia and the U.S. Team USA…

Players born in the United States, the Dominican Republic or Venezuela accounted for 90 percent of all players who suited up for major league clubs or domestic minor league affiliates in 2016. More than two-thirds of those players hail from the U.S. According to records kept by Baseball America, nearly 7,500 players from 38 different birth countries participated in affiliated U.S. baseball last year. Our head count does not include…

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Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Danny KnoblerMLB Lead WriterMarch 10, 2017 TOKYO — There are Americans who love the World Baseball Classic. One of them is here at the Tokyo Dome this week, managing China. “It’s a wonderful event,” Philadelphia Phillies catching coach John McLaren said Thursday. Another one is here this week, working for MLB Network. “When we lost [in 2006], I cried,” said Buck Martinez, who managed Team USA…

Published March 9, 2017 at 5:06 p.m. Another season of Rock League Baseball kicks off Saturday, March 11, with open tryouts in four divisions of adult wooden bat baseball leagues. These tryouts – players should bring their own baseball gear and shoes for an indoor workout – will take place at Pius XI High School, 135 N. 76th St., in the main gym. The times and minimum age requirements…

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Tragedy struck the baseball world in January when Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte were killed in separate car crashes in the Dominican Republic on the same day. Marte was 33. Ventura was 25. The Dominican Republic team is playing its first 2017 World Baseball Classic game on Thursday night, and the players are honoring their late countrymen by hanging Ventura and Marte jerseys in the dugout. Check it out: The…

As Team USA worked out in Florida this week, Clayton Kershaw stood in front of his locker at the Dodgers’ training camp in Arizona. The national team would go on without the best pitcher in the nation. Kershaw has heard just about enough of the primary talking point surrounding the World Baseball Classic: How much of a classic could it be if Kershaw isn’t playing? And how much of a…

Hey umpire, whattayou, drunk? At one Alabama high school baseball game, police say the answer was yes. WAAY-TV reports a north Alabama umpire faces public intoxication charges after he was arrested for officiating at a high school baseball game while drunk. Priceville police say Derek Bryant was arrested Monday with one inning left in a junior varsity game at Priceville High School. Number of immigrants caught at Mexican border plunges…

Buy Photo Loving baseball coach Alfredo Chacon will retire after the 2017 season, which will be his 26th season at the helm.(Photo: Matt Hollinshead — Current-Argus)Buy Photo LOVING – Alfredo Chacon has touched many lives in the Loving baseball community. He instilled compassion, commitment and long-lasting skills and memories as the Falcons’ head baseball coach. But after 30 seasons with the Falcons, including 26 as the head coach, Chacon will say goodbye…