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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum held its annual post-election press conference to introduce the Class of 2017 to the media. As the St. Regis Hotel in New York City hosted the hour long press conference in the shadows of Trump Tower, Baseball Writers’ Association of America secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell couldn’t help himself but partake in some good natured humor pertaining to President-elect Trump. In his opening remarks,…

Forget Bryce Harper and Mike Trout … one of the most valuable autographs you can get on a baseball right now is Donald Trump.  We spoke with multiple sports memorabilia experts who tell us the value of a Trump signed baseball used to be around $100 ($200 tops) … now, it’s worth around $1,000 depending on the quality of the signature.  Both Brandon Steiner of Steiner Sports and Joe Coppola…

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George Will(Photo: File photo/Special to The Clarion-Ledger) WASHINGTON — Many Americans are more thoughtful when choosing appliances than when choosing presidents, but the baseball writers whose ballots decide who is “enshrined” — more about that verb anon — in Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame are mostly conscientious voters struggling to unravel a knotty puzzle: How to treat retired players who are known or suspected to have used performance enhancing drugs (PEDs)…

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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum held its annual post-election press conference to introduce the Class of 2017 to the media. As the St. Regis Hotel in New York City hosted the hour long press conference in the shadows of Trump Tower, Baseball Writers’ Association of America secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell couldn’t help himself but partake in some good natured humor pertaining to President-elect Trump. In his opening remarks,…

Now 34 and preparing for his 13th year in major league baseball, Baltimore Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy is perceived by some to be in a state of athletic decline. The same player who slugged 30 home runs as recently as 2011, for example, belted just 8 last year, and injuries have forced him to miss about 30 percent of his team’s games over the past two years. But there are…

Forget Bryce Harper and Mike Trout … one of the most valuable autographs you can get on a baseball right now is Donald Trump.  We spoke with multiple sports memorabilia experts who tell us the value of a Trump signed baseball used to be around $100 ($200 tops) … now, it’s worth around $1,000 depending on the quality of the signature.  Both Brandon Steiner of Steiner Sports and Joe Coppola…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — This is a story about four Cleveland Indians, an abstention and the muddled process by which baseball determines those who get to be remembered as the best who ever played the game. 1. Maybe it’s fitting that the Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, N.Y., a quaint village whose place as the actual birthplace of baseball is as big a myth as the Scottish village Brigadoon,…

Like a cold snap to ring in the new year, one certainty for area baseball fans existed each January from the late 1950s through the early 1990s: Willie Duke, resplendent in coat and tie with baseball cap, pitched tickets for the annual Raleigh Hot Stove League banquet. Duke played 14 seasons of minor-league baseball and left his mark in the Durham Bulls record book with a .385 batting average in…

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum held its annual post-election press conference to introduce the Class of 2017 to the media. As the St. Regis Hotel in New York City hosted the hour long press conference in the shadows of Trump Tower, Baseball Writers’ Association of America secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell couldn’t help himself but partake in some good natured humor pertaining to President-elect Trump. In his opening remarks,…

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Brett Williams knew he wanted to commit to play baseball at South Carolina in late December, telling his head coach Charles Assey he “felt like it is where I need to be.” Less than two weeks later, South Carolina coach Chad Holbrook said the same words to Assey, the Lexington White Knoll baseball coach, when Assey delivered the news that Williams was in the intensive care unit….

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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Brett Williams knew he wanted to commit to play baseball at South Carolina in late December, telling his head coach Charles Assey he “felt like it is where I need to be.” Less than two weeks later, South Carolina coach Chad Holbrook said the same words to Assey, the Lexington White Knoll baseball coach, when Assey delivered the news that Williams was in the intensive care unit….

Subscribe for free!: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Is Felix Hernandez ready to rebound? On today’s episode of the Fantasy Baseball Podcast we continue our team outlooks with the spotlight on the Atlanta Braves , Seattle Mariners , Cleveland Indians , New York Yankees and a couple more. Are Danny Salazar and Carlos Carrasco dependable? Find out if the guys still want to spend a late pick on…

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Brett Williams knew he wanted to commit to play baseball at South Carolina in late December, telling his head coach Charles Assey he “felt like it is where I need to be.” Less than two weeks later, South Carolina coach Chad Holbrook said the same words to Assey, the Lexington White Knoll baseball coach, when Assey delivered the news that Williams was in the intensive care unit….

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U.S. Treasury agents load boxes of files and records from New York nightclub Studio 54 into trucks to transfer to government offices, Thursday, Dec. 14, 1978. Co-owner of the nightclub Ian Schrager was arrested earlier today for cocaine possession during an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) search of the disco’s books. (AP Photo) He loved the nightlife. He got to boogie. He just didn’t get around to paying his taxes. And…

Now that the dust has settled on the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame class, we can start to look ahead to next year’s ballot. Sure, we’ll go far more in depth come next December and January, but we can at least begin to think about which players might be going in next year. We have several carryovers with a good shot at induction, but there are also some worthy first-timers….

Now that the dust has settled on the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame class, we can start to look ahead to next year’s ballot. Sure, we’ll go far more in depth come next December and January, but we can at least begin to think about which players might be going in next year. We have several carryovers with a good shot at induction, but there are also some worthy first-timers….