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Yes, Tim Tebow is well aware of Michael Jordan’s attempt at baseball. Tebow grew up a huge Chicago Bulls and Jordan fan. He remembers the stories and documentaries about the world’s greatest basketball player trying to do arguably the most difficult thing in sports: consistently hit a baseball. “It’s something that he had the heart for and he went after it, so yeah, I admire people who go after something…

BOSTON (AP) Hanley Ramirez homered for the second straight game, and David Ortiz had a pair of hits on Friday night to send the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox to a 7-4 victory over the New York Yankees. The Red Sox maintained a two-game lead over Baltimore. The Yankees, who on Thursday night were one out from climbing within three games of the division lead, fell six games back and…

Gross. This particular crop of two-start pitchers is our clearest indication yet that two-start pitchers aren’t the way to go in September. So if you’ve made it this far through excessive streaming, congratulations, you’re about to get your cosmic comeuppance. Not only is it a short list with so many six-man rotations across the league and so few teams playing seven games this week, but it’s a bottom-heavy list as…

Yes, Tim Tebow is well aware of Michael Jordan’s attempt at baseball. Tebow grew up a huge Chicago Bulls and Jordan fan. He remembers the stories and documentaries about the world’s greatest basketball player trying to do arguably the most difficult thing in sports: consistently hit a baseball. “It’s something that he had the heart for and he went after it, so yeah, I admire people who go after something…

Yes, Tim Tebow is well aware of Michael Jordan’s attempt at baseball. Tebow grew up a huge Chicago Bulls and Jordan fan. He remembers the stories and documentaries about the world’s greatest basketball player trying to do arguably the most difficult thing in sports: consistently hit a baseball. “It’s something that he had the heart for and he went after it, so yeah, I admire people who go after something…

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Earlier this week, Adam Jones, an All-Star centerfielder for the Baltimore Orioles, was asked why neither he nor any African-American baseball player has followed the lead of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and knelt or sat during the national anthem to protest police brutality against minorities. “Baseball is a white man’s sport,” said Jones. The following day, Howard Bryant, an ESPN columnist who is also African-American, wrote an essay in which…

On Thursday, Fox will debut a TV show called “Pitch,” a fictional account of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. But from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Marlins Park in Miami will be the location for the real thing — young female athletes competing for a chance to play baseball against boys. Girls Travel Baseball is run in Sunrise by CEO…

Yes, Tim Tebow is well aware of Michael Jordan’s attempt at baseball. Tebow grew up a huge Chicago Bulls and Jordan fan. He remembers the stories and documentaries about the world’s greatest basketball player trying to do arguably the most difficult thing in sports: consistently hit a baseball. “It’s something that he had the heart for and he went after it, so yeah, I admire people who go after something…

September baseball: You can’t defend it intellectually. Competing with as many as 40 players on each team, after playing with 25-man rosters for the first five months? Ludicrous. Commissioner Rob Manfred knows it. I’d be very surprised if Manfred didn’t address it significantly in the new collective bargaining agreement that is being negotiated right now and, assuming the owners and players come to terms, will begin in the 2017 season….

“Tim Tebow: baseball player” is a real thing, no matter how much you might try to ignore it. But according to the former quarterback, the NFL hasn’t stopped knocking on his door just because he changed careers. When Tebow joined the Dan Patrick Show on Thursday, he said he still gets calls from the league gauging his interest in playing — at positions other than QB, anyway. His response? Thanks, but no thanks….

September baseball: You can’t defend it intellectually. Competing with as many as 40 players on each team, after playing with 25-man rosters for the first five months? Ludicrous. Commissioner Rob Manfred knows it. I’d be very surprised if Manfred didn’t address it significantly in the new collective bargaining agreement that is being negotiated right now and, assuming the owners and players come to terms, will begin in the 2017 season….

A candy company has stuck to its word and sent a Texas man a Louisville Slugger glove nearly 60 years after a bubble gum and baseball card contest began. Texan wins glove nearly 60 years after Topps baseball card contest https://t.co/165oIUwKgM #dechr pic.twitter.com/ebfYGasncH — heraldandreview (@heraldandreview) September 15, 2016 Darwin Day, 70, of Grand Prairie was cleaning his house and found a complete collection of Topps baseball cards from 1957-58,…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

 Nate Fish and Peter Kurz were riding in an elevator four years ago in Jupiter, Florida. It was a couple of days before Israel would play in a qualifying tournament to participate in the quadrennial World Baseball Classic (WBC) tournament, the World Cup of baseball.Kurz, president of the Israel Association of Baseball (IAB), the governing body, looked at Fish, a coach for the 2012 team, and asked,…

12:00 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment A few weeks ago, I spoke with Adam Jones about the challenges Major League Baseball players face when considering whether to speak out on a social issue. On Monday, Jones publicly addressed Colin Kaepernick’s protest of the national anthem, citing how baseball’s lack of African-American representation makes it difficult for black players to be vocal without consequence. Given baseball’s rich history…

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8:14 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment An ongoing referendum is taking place in America, a trial in which we, the people, seem to be both plaintiff and defendant. The same questions are being asked that have always been asked, especially in an election year, but the consequences of those answers no longer seem to result merely in a difference of opinion. Today, they either confirm that our…

SECAUCUS, N.J. — Two men, both in their 60s, sit on a park bench chatting with the languid ease of longtime friends, occasionally breaking into fits of laughter. They could be any pair of suburban dads whose kids have grown up and left the house, maybe out for a casual stroll after a morning on the links. The only clue to their connection is that they’re both in exceptionally good…