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NYPD Assistant Chief Larry Nikunen briefs reporters on the fatal shooting of 66-year-old Deborah Danner. NBC New York A New York City police officer fatally shot a 66-year-old black woman who was wielding a baseball bat, police officials said Tuesday. The officer, who was white, was also armed with a Taser but did not deploy it, police said. The shooting occurred at the woman’s apartment in the Bronx on Tuesday evening…

After the final at-bat of the 2016 World Series, as T-shirts commemorating the winning team hit retailers’ shelves almost as soon as they’re on players’ backs, versions celebrating the losers start a journey to the shredder. It didn’t always work that way. In past years, retailers donated preprinted Major League Baseball championship merchandise for losing teams overseas. Each new round of the postseason comes with new commemorative merchandise retailers can…

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After the final at-bat of the 2016 World Series, as T-shirts commemorating the winning team hit retailers’ shelves almost as soon as they’re on players’ backs, versions celebrating the losers start a journey to the shredder. It didn’t always work that way. In past years, retailers donated preprinted Major League Baseball championship merchandise for losing teams overseas. Each new round of the postseason comes with new commemorative merchandise retailers can…

Toronto Former Blue Jays outfielder Barry Bonnell remembers the lean years in the early 1980s when fans behaved more like a golf gallery, “politely clapping” while remaining seated. Even in September, 1992, on the threshold of their first World…

After the final at-bat of the 2016 World Series, as T-shirts commemorating the winning team hit retailers’ shelves almost as soon as they’re on players’ backs, versions celebrating the losers start a journey to the shredder. It didn’t always work that way. In past years, retailers donated preprinted Major League Baseball championship merchandise for losing teams overseas. Each new round of the postseason comes with new commemorative merchandise retailers can…

Toronto Former Blue Jays outfielder Barry Bonnell remembers the lean years in the early 1980s when fans behaved more like a golf gallery, “politely clapping” while remaining seated. Even in September, 1992, on the threshold of their first World…

It was Game One of the American League Championship Series, and Cleveland Indians ace Corey Kluber was cruising against the Toronto Blue Jays. He’d allowed no runs while striking out six through six and a third innings, and — having thrown only 100 pitches — he seemed ready to keep shutting down the Jays’ bats. But Cleveland manager Terry Francona took him out of the ballgame anyway. During the regular…

Ian Snell, Scott Olsen, and John Maine didn’t pitch in 2016. There’s at least a fair chance that you’ve forgotten about them, and that’s if you’ve even heard of them in the first place. After all, the three have combined to make four appearances since 2010. Another connection: All three have thrown more career innings than Rich Hill. All three were rookies in 2005, too, just like Hill. To…

McGill-Toolen quarterback Bubba Thompson has some decisions to make. Again. The Auburn baseball commit received his first SEC football offer this week from the University of Tennessee. McGill coach Caleb Ross said the Vols have offered to let the two-sport standout play both in college. RELATED: 5 CAN’T-MISS COASTAL ALABAMA WEEK 10 GAMES  “He told me this morning that the offer hadn’t quite sunk in yet,” Ross said. “He knows a football offer…

In Taiwanese professional baseball, the action on the field could rarely compete with the action off it — a long string of game-fixing scandals that threatened to destroy the league. Players in cahoots with gambling rings would lose games on purpose, as the Chicago White Sox famously did in the World Series in 1919. One scandal implicated 26 active or former players on the same team, the Brother Elephants. Fans…

In Taiwanese professional baseball, the action on the field could rarely compete with the action off it — a long string of game-fixing scandals that threatened to destroy the league. Players in cahoots with gambling rings would lose games on purpose, as the Chicago White Sox famously did in the World Series in 1919. One scandal implicated 26 active or former players on the same team, the Brother Elephants. Fans…

x Embed x Share Each of the four remaining teams in the MLB playoffs is dealing with a World Series drought, some longer than others. USA TODAY Sports (From left, to right): President of baseball operations Theo Epstein, senior vice president Jason McLeod, general manager Jed Hoyer and Chairman Tom Ricketts pose before a Cubs game.(Photo: Steve Green, Chicago Cubs) LOS ANGELES –They are baseball’s version of the Rat Pack,…

Fell through a glass table after waking up from a dream that spiders were eating him. 

TORONTO A Canadian judge dismissed a late attempt to bar Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians from using their controversial logo and team nickname during Monday’s playoff game versus the host Toronto Blue Jays. The legal challenge by prominent Canadian architect and indigenous activist Douglas Cardinal was heard in a Toronto court hours before the Blue Jays host the Indians in Game Three of their American League Championship series. Lawyers for…

African players are hoping to hit the big time, as Major League Baseball (MLB) launches a talent hunt in the continent. Leagues are springing up and coaches and scouts travel across Africa looking for the next big star. The BBC spent time with one young man hoping to make it to the MLB’s “Elite Africa” training camp taking place in Johannesburg later this year. Video Journalist: Christian Parkinson

As a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan, Bob Higgins relished Sunday’s Game 2 victory over the Cubs. And for the sake of his marriage, he relished Saturday’s Game 1 loss. “I did text him during the game,” Bob’s wife, Jo Higgins, told me, “saying if he brought home a Los Angeles victory, the locks would be changed.” The Higgins, who live in Hinsdale, share a deeply rooted love for baseball and…

CHICAGO—The World Series won’t begin for more than a week, but this postseason already looks historic: It appears to mark the end of the modern bullpen. On the teams still standing in the 2016 playoffs, the managers have smashed through baseball’s fossilized conviction in traditional bullpen roles. Instead of sticking to a rigid script, managers…

If you hadn’t heard of Javier Baez before this postseason, you surely have by now. The Cubs‘ electric second baseman is making headlines almost every single postseason game, and Sunday night was no exception. With Chicago trailing 1-0 in the top of the sixth of a tense Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, the Dodgers mounted a bit of a threat, with Adrian Gonzalez drawing a one-out walk…