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I visited Cooperstown for the first time in the spring of 2012.  I admit, I’m a bit ashamed it took me so long. Apologies. I’ll be back in July to watch the class of 2017 induction ceremony. I cannot wait. I’ve spent most of the past month obsessing about filling out my first Hall of Fame ballot (the 2016 season was my 10th as a member of the BBWAA). I’ll be…

Max Scherzer’s next start could be in a Team USA uniform. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/ The Washington Post) Max Scherzer does not shy away from challenges. He attacks them with maniacal vigor, usually successfully, and moves on to the next with equal gusto. This spring, he’ll tackle a new one: While some of his peers have opted out of playing in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, Scherzer, always the fiery competitor,…

When Surry Community College’s baseball club teams up with the Surry County Sheriff’s Department, there is no game to be played, but there is always a winner – the entire community. On December 10, the Surry Knights’ baseball team began its second decade of helping the local sheriff’s department organize and deliver food to needy families in the area for the Christmas holiday. For the 11th straight year, beginning bright…

Many of the most exciting stories in baseball are tales of the underdog. The Amazin’ Mets of 1969 not only overcame a large Cubs lead in the standings, it was also their first good season ever and one that few saw coming. The 1991 Worst-to-First World Series between the Braves and Twins is still remembered on that basis (and for the Jack Morris/ John Smoltz showdown). Oregon’s Brooks says beating…

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Max Scherzer’s next start could be in a Team USA uniform. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/ The Washington Post) Max Scherzer does not shy away from challenges. He attacks them with maniacal vigor, usually successfully, and moves on to the next with equal gusto. This spring, he’ll tackle a new one: While some of his peers have opted out of playing in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, Scherzer, always the fiery competitor,…

I visited Cooperstown for the first time in the spring of 2012.  I admit, I’m a bit ashamed it took me so long. Apologies. I’ll be back in July to watch the class of 2017 induction ceremony. I cannot wait. I’ve spent most of the past month obsessing about filling out my first Hall of Fame ballot (the 2016 season was my 10th as a member of the BBWAA). I’ll be…

When Surry Community College’s baseball club teams up with the Surry County Sheriff’s Department, there is no game to be played, but there is always a winner – the entire community. On December 10, the Surry Knights’ baseball team began its second decade of helping the local sheriff’s department organize and deliver food to needy families in the area for the Christmas holiday. For the 11th straight year, beginning bright…

Many of the most exciting stories in baseball are tales of the underdog. The Amazin’ Mets of 1969 not only overcame a large Cubs lead in the standings, it was also their first good season ever and one that few saw coming. The 1991 Worst-to-First World Series between the Braves and Twins is still remembered on that basis (and for the Jack Morris/ John Smoltz showdown). Haberstroh calls Westbrook’s season…

We’re a few short days away from 2017 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2016. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this…

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At the end of the most maddening summer of baseball he’s ever had, Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong left Busch Stadium in October with a list of things he wanted to do this winter, from unplugging for a break to unwinding his swing. But first, he needed to buy a winter coat. Or four. Hilo’s Wong heard it would be a chilly winter in St. Louis, and seeing as he…

Matthew Salewske, 39, of Gilroy, was arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of his mother, Claudia Salewske. (Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office)  GILROY — A 39-year-old Gilroy man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally beating his mother, a beloved former lecturer at San Jose State University, with a baseball bat on Christmas Day, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Matthew Salewske was arrested Sunday after deputies…

The late Jose Fernandez. Yasiel Puig. Jose Abreu. Major League Baseball has no shortage of talent from Cuba. Over the holidays, a group of 13- and 14-year-olds ballplayers from Montgomery County are getting a little closer to their idols and engaging in some baseball diplomacy on a “good will” trip to the island nation. A few days before they left for Cuba, some of the players on…

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Four of college football’s 40 bowl games this year are in MLB stadiums. Most major stadiums are multi-purposed in some fashion or another, but football games in baseball parks is a weird match. It requires fitting a 120-yard-long rectangular peg into a diamond-shaped hole. It doesn’t always look natural. And yet, it works. The four current ballpark bowls — the Miami Beach, Arizona’s Cactus, New York’s Pinstripe, and the St….