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His baseball career has taken him all over the U.S. and to Japan, South Korea, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Great Britain.

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

Paul Konerko readily admits there are times when he misses baseball. He doesn’t miss it enough consider a full-time role yet, but misses it enough to keep his options open. The former White Sox captain who retired after the 2014 season maintains a busy schedule without being around the game. Besides serving as an assistant coach for his son’s youth baseball team, Konerko fills his days with being a father,…

i Beep baseball player Kerry Kuck practices at Ruby Hill Park in Denver, Colo. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hyoung Chang/Getty Images Beep baseball player Kerry Kuck practices at Ruby Hill Park in Denver, Colo. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images There sure has been a lot of sports in the news these days. NBA Finals, UEFA Cup, Wimbledon, the ongoing endurance test which is Major League Baseball. Sports is a…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

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Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

COMMENTARY They sounded a little silly, those suggestions way back in spring training that Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts might become an MVP candidate during what would amount to only his second full season in the major leagues. The 23-year-old came into the 2016 season, after all, having played in 197 games, and putting up a .291 batting average, 23 home runs, 95 runs batted in, and an .818…

AUGUSTA, Maine — A recent national mandate obligating most states to develop pitch-count standards for high school baseball beginning with the 2017 season came as no surprise to organizers of the sport in Maine. “We’ve been planning for this,” Maine Principals’ Association baseball committee chair Phil St. Onge, assistant principal at Nokomis Regional High School of Newport, said recently. “We’ve been talking about this for about a year.” The revised…

RJ Sales, 13, leads stretches for the USA-NC Patriots Baseball Team. SAM KRUYER/The Pilot

This weekend, thousands of baseball fans will descend on Cooperstown, New York, for the Hall of Fame inductions of Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, two of the best and most popular players of the 1990s. Griffey was basically the second coming of Willie Mays, and Piazza was the best hitting catcher ever, with a defensive reputation that’s been rehabilitated in recent years thanks to new data. And yet something…

Your teams on the go or at home. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS or Android. There have been a few pretty solid baseball brawls this season, but none that kicked off like this.  During a Can-Am League game against the Rockland Boulders last week, New Jersey Jackals pitcher Fernando Cruz ran out of the dugout and zipped right behind the plate during live play so that…

Caption Close Let’s take a swing at Centro San Antonio’s downtown baseball study. It’s been a bit forgotten, but Centro commissioned a study about the possibility of a Triple-A ballpark downtown, providing the final report to the city. The study makes perfect sense for Centro and an interested public. The ballpark would be downtown, and Centro’s mission is boosting downtown. As for the public, just like a close call at…

Caption Close Let’s take a swing at Centro San Antonio’s downtown baseball study. It’s been a bit forgotten, but Centro commissioned a study about the possibility of a Triple-A ballpark downtown, providing the final report to the city. The study makes perfect sense for Centro and an interested public. The ballpark would be downtown, and Centro’s mission is boosting downtown. As for the public, just like a close call at…

This weekend, thousands of baseball fans will descend on Cooperstown, New York, for the Hall of Fame inductions of Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, two of the best and most popular players of the 1990s. Griffey was basically the second coming of Willie Mays, and Piazza was the best hitting catcher ever, with a defensive reputation that’s been rehabilitated in recent years thanks to new data. And yet something…

Your teams on the go or at home. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS or Android. There have been a few pretty solid baseball brawls this season, but none that kicked off like this.  During a Can-Am League game against the Rockland Boulders last week, New Jersey Jackals pitcher Fernando Cruz ran out of the dugout and zipped right behind the plate during live play so that…

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