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Bill Leonard has memories spanning eight decades, but few match the delight of his baseball years. From watching a pre-Yankees Elston Howard field balls in Copeland Park to coaching opposite Jay Buckley, future owner of the nation’s largest baseball tour company, each precious recollection is preserved on the pages of his second book, “Baseball, A Love Story,” the La Crosse Tribune (http://bit.ly/2kuIt1v ) reported. “I fell in love with baseball…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

Baseball Posted January 27th, 2017 Danny Davis American-Statesman Staff @aasdanny If you’re wondering what’s new at UFCU Disch-Falk Field this spring, the answer is plenty. First off, the home of Texas’ baseball team has new turf and a new look in the outfield. There are 11 freshmen on the roster. There’s also new head coach David Pierce, who took over a program that had been led by Augie Garrido since…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

A top prospect may lose rookie eligibility after a certain amount of playing time, but the shine from his minor-league pedigree usually takes quite a bit longer to leave him. Fantasy players are obsessed with potential, and rightly so, but it can cause us to stick with players past the point of usefulness. Latest mocks, tiers, rankings and more At some point, potential stops mattering, and what you actually have…

  It may only be January, but we at Yahoo Fantasy Sports know that the most passionate fantasy players out there are already eager to create their leagues and get started, so today we’re officially opening Fantasy Baseball season. As in years past, we are the Official Fantasy Commissioner Game of MLB.com, giving players and fans all they need to dominate including video highlights, MLB “Game of the Day,” condensed…

Your 2016 World Champions bring back almost all of the same pieces in 2017. That should be terrifying for the rest of the league and maybe Fantasy owners too. Generally when you make a run the way the Chicago Cubs just did, you do it on the back of several career years. In other words, you don’t necessarily expect everyone to repeat what they did the year before. While that’s…

Vanderbilt RHP Kyle Wright & CF Jeren Kendall talk about playing the 2017 season as projected Top-10 MLB draft picks. Adam Sparks

Caption Close DERBY-For Red Raider sports this is a game changer. And the chief executive officer of a $110 billion asset management firm whose father grew up here delivered it. Supt. of Schools Matthew Conway announced Thursday during a meeting of the school baseball field relocation committee that Joan A. Payden, chief executive officer of Payden & Rygel which has offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, London and Paris is…

Subscribe for free!: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Who are your favorite breakout candidates for 2017? We offer some of ours on this episode of Fantasy Baseball Today. There are plenty of young starting pitchers to like, so make sure you’re drafting the best ones. It seems our analysts love the young starting pitchers with strikeout potential like Lance McCullers, Carlos Rodon and a few more headline our…

Start with the obvious. The Angels have the best player in baseball. They have one of the best players ever to play baseball. He is so, so, so very good. If all the players in the world were thrown into a hat, and teams had to start over with a massive, 30-team expansion draft, the Angels would have the equivalent of the first-overall pick, and it’s not especially close. There’s…

MOUNT PLEASANT — A 20-acre waterfront baseball complex with five playing fields and an indoor training building is under construction on the eastern banks of the Wando River along S.C. Highway 41, scheduled for completion this summer. “It’s going to be like a Disneyland, for baseball,” said Stan Kowalski, director of the baseball program at the complex, Shipyard Park. Kowalski is owner and operator of Charleston Baseball…

Sports broadcasting icon Brent Musburger will retire from play-by-play announcing on Jan. 31, ESPN announced Wednesday. When he officially walks away, it will mark the end of a 50-year career in which Musburger lent his legendary voice and style to virtually every sport under the sun. Yes, that even includes baseball. For a time, Musburger served as the play-by-play voice for Major League Baseball on CBS Radio. When he moved…

I think we can all agree that baseball is amazing. If we weren’t all on the same page, it stands to reason we wouldn’t all be here. I think we can also all agree that baseball is stupid. Sometimes it is extremely stupid. Other times, it is more forgivably stupid. But it is very stupid. Following in the true spirit of baseball, let’s take a quiz! There are nine…

Imhof announced Wednesday that he would retire from professional baseball, ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports. The 47th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft, Imhof pitched for four of the Phillies‘ minor-league affiliates in two and a half seasons before losing his right eye during a freak accident last June, Imhof was able to replace the eye with a prosthetic one, but determined it was best to call it a career….

Imhof announced Wednesday that he would retire from professional baseball, ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports. The 47th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft, Imhof pitched for four of the Phillies‘ minor-league affiliates in two and a half seasons before losing his right eye during a freak accident last June, Imhof was able to replace the eye with a prosthetic one, but determined it was best to call it a career….

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Florida State baseball, a consensus top 10 team entering the 2017 season, has been picked as the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason favorite in a vote of the league’s 14 head coaches, the conference announced Wednesday morning. The Seminoles received 10 of the 14 first place votes, with Atlantic Division rivals Clemson, Louisville and NC State receiving one vote each. North Carolina, picked to win the Coastal Division,…

Imhof announced Wednesday that he would retire from professional baseball, ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports. The 47th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft, Imhof pitched for four of the Phillies‘ minor-league affiliates in two and a half seasons before losing his right eye during a freak accident last June, Imhof was able to replace the eye with a prosthetic one, but determined it was best to call it a career….

Even baseball’s fiercest defenders will admit the sport went in the wrong direction in 2016: The games ran too long, managers called on too many relievers who took forever. Sitting through nine innings, especially in the postseason, was a test of patience, if not one’s sanity. Even the historic postseason came at a steep price. Game 2 of the World Series lasted four hours, four minutes without even going into…