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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…

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…

A youth baseball team headed for a game in St. Louis was among the hundreds of passengers left stranded at LAX Thursday morning amid a growing number of Southwest Airlines flight delays and cancellations. About 45 people, including coaches and parents, were traveling with the West Covina team of players 8 years old and under. The team was traveling from Los Angeles International Airport to St. Louis to take part in…

They sit across the negotiating table as adversaries, but Rob Manfred and Tony Clark are also partners. As the commissioner of Major League Baseball and the head of its players union, respectively, Manfred and Clark have significant differences, but also common goals. There’s little they agree on more than the need to bring the game to younger audiences, to increase baseball’s appeal to the next generation. They need to get through…

A youth baseball team headed for a game in St. Louis was among the hundreds of passengers left stranded at LAX Thursday morning amid a growing number of Southwest Airlines flight delays and cancelations. About 45 people, including coaches and parents, were traveling with the West Covina team of 8-year-old and under players. The team was traveling to St. Louis to take part in a national baseball tournament, but the…

There’s no crying in baseball. And we’re impressed this stadium dweller was able to hold back his tears. A vendor at the Oakland Coliseum was innocently trying to sell ice cream to fans during an Oakland A’s-Houston Astros game when a foul ball suddenly hit him in the butt.  SEE ALSO: Obama inspires young slackers everywhere in interview with Derek Jeter Even though it was a foul, Astros player Marwin…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have indicted a star baseball player for allegedly manipulating games for gambling purposes in what could be another blow to the reputation of the country’s professional sports leagues. Prosecutors in Changwon city on Thursday said they formally charged pitcher Lee Tae Yang, a starter for NC Dinos in the Korea Baseball Organization, for deliberately allowing first-inning walks and runs…

Buy Photo A group of youth baseball coaches and umpires have joined forces to bring Xtreme Diamond Sports to the El Paso area. They are, from left: Sergio Beltran, John Medrano, Raul Robles and Arturo Velasquez.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ/EL PASO TIMES)Buy Photo Story Highlights Xtreme Diamond Sports tournaments are coming to El Paso and Southern New Mexico. The organization is a fastpitch softball and baseball national organization based in Moreno Valley,…

Matt Parish, a Morristown resident and Mendham assistant coach, is now pitching for the independent New Jersey Jackals.(Photo: Brandon Koodish/New Jersey Jackals) MONTCLAIR – Every so often, Matt Parish gets a weird feeling when he’s out on the pitcher’s mound. Instead of thinking like the New Jersey Jackals starter he is, Parish is acting like a coach. But that’s not too surprising, since Parish is the Mendham pitching coach as…

Every summer, aspiring baseball players come out to take lessons from one of the brightest minds in high school baseball at the Wiese Baseball Academy at Heritage Field. Puyallup High and USA baseball coach Marc Wiese has established a reputation as one of the top coaches in the game. From his time playing in the New York Mets organization (1988-1989) to being an 11-time SPSL coach of the year over…

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Ask Thea Hanscom why she plays baseball and you get a simple answer: “Baseball’s what I grew up doing,” she said. “So I enjoy doing it.” Since the rising ninth-grader started playing T-ball at age 6, she’s been a minority in a game traditionally played by boys. There have been other girls on her teams, but she’s the only one who has continued to play. “Mostly the girls quit (playing),”…

Nearly 45,000 fans filed into Busch Stadium on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball. They watched the Cardinals, all of whom wore jersey No. 42 in honor of the man who broke baseball’s color barrier 69 years earlier, slug a stadium-record six home runs in a 14-3 rout of the visiting Cincinnati Reds. Earlier that evening, less than five miles away, the predominantly black…

Buy Photo Ozark’s freshly renovated U.S. Baseball Park will host the inaugural championship series of the Show-Me Collegiate Baseball League this weekend.(Photo: News-Leader File Photo)Buy Photo Ozark’s U.S. Baseball Park got a $1.5 million makeover in February, and will host its first championship series less than six months later. The Show-Me Collegiate Baseball League enters the postseason Wednesday and is set to crown its first ever champion this weekend. The…

Ask Thea Hanscom why she plays baseball and you get a simple answer: “Baseball’s what I grew up doing,” she said. “So I enjoy doing it.” Since the rising ninth-grader started playing T-ball at age 6, she’s been a minority in a game traditionally played by boys. There have been other girls on her teams, but she’s the only one who has continued to play. “Mostly the girls quit (playing),”…

CHICAGO (AP) — Jeurys Familia escaped a bases-loaded jam with a game-ending double play after Rene Rivera drove in the tiebreaking run with two outs in the top of the ninth, lifting the New York Mets over the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Tuesday night. Familia walked Addison Russell and Miguel Montero to start the ninth, then Javier Baez reached on a bunt single when third baseman Jose Reyes threw wide…

The second half of baseball’s season has opened and we’re set for a heck of a stretch run. A total of 18 teams sit at or above the .500 mark heading into Tuesday night’s action, which means a ton of teams have a shot at reaching the postseason and making a run at a World Series title. With that in mind, here is a look at those contenders and the…