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ANALYSIS/OPINION I guess even baseball’s Minister of Fun has his limits when it comes to making baseball fun again. Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper – who crowned himself baseball’s Minister of Fun when he declared before the start of the season that he was on a mission to “make baseball fun again” – says he won’t be taking part in one of baseball’s fun events at the upcoming All-Star festivities,…

Being Australian, I don’t have much time for baseball. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy baseball video games, though. Especially when they’re from the future. Super Baseball 2020 is a game developed by SNK and was first released in 1991 for its Neo Geo platform. It is, as the name suggests, an idea of what baseball may have looked like thirty years in the future, as envisaged not by Major…

Updated: Jul 7, 2016 – 7:53 PM ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A children’s baseball coach from Wisconsin is being held on no bond Thursday evening after Orange County deputies arrested him for inappropriately touching young boys. Nicholas Groth, 20, admitted to deputies that he touched three boys’ buttocks Sunday night while in the pool at Disney’s Pop Century Resort, according to an arrest report. Related Headlines Man accused of groping teens…

June 22, 1999 — Phyllis and Claude Robers, left, who have two lots, and Jean and Stan Heiligenthal, who have three lots behind their homes on Crestwood Drive in Burlington, have an area set aside with a small ballpark where children can practice for ballgames and their younger siblings can enjoy the playground equipment that Stan built. Stan Heiligenthal is being inducted posthumously into the Burlington Baseball Hall of…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The wildest of pitches were often tossed long after the lights went down on the field of dreams. When the bar stools, not the bases, were loaded and the shots came off a bottle not a bat. Raise a glass and sing along:                           Take me out to the ball game Take me out to the bar Buy me some whiskey, a stiff shot of Jack I don’t…

ANALYSIS/OPINION I guess even baseball’s Minister of Fun has his limits when it comes to making baseball fun again. Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper – who crowned himself baseball’s Minister of Fun when he declared before the start of the season that he was on a mission to “make baseball fun again” – says he won’t be taking part in one of baseball’s fun events at the upcoming All-Star festivities,…

Four people were arrested after a 30-person brawl broke out at a Gates, New York, Walmart on Sunday. The melee reportedly began when two 17-year-old girls insulted a 24-year-old woman’s clothing. The families of the parties got involved as the confrontation erupted. “It was in total chaos when the officers got there,” Gates Police Chief Jim VanBrederode told WHEC. “It’s just disgusting to see that kind of behavior happening right…

July 6, 2016 8:53 p.m. ET By this time in the baseball season the New York Mets are often many games out of first place. It took Allison Rudnick, an assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to inform me that’s not the case this year. “The Mets are doing really well,” she said. Ms. Rudnick’s expertise can be traced to two sources. She comes from a Mets family….

It’s a feat in baseball that has happened only twice in around 60 years. The Sonoma Stompers of the Pacific Association independent baseball league made history Friday when two women suited up for a game against the San Rafael Pacifics. Kelsie Whitmore, 17, earned the start in left field, while 25-year-old Stacy Piagno took the mound. The last co-ed professional baseball team was fielded in the 1950s, when…

Former baseball star Pete Rose on Wednesday sued the lawyer whose investigative report got him kicked out of baseball for gambling, alleging the lawyer defamed him last year by saying on the radio that Rose raped young teen girls during spring training. Rose said in the federal lawsuit that John M. Dowd damaged his reputation and endorsement deals during a July 2015 interview on WCHE-AM in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Dowd investigated Rose for Major League Baseball…

Noted ball-hawk Zack Hample caused a firestorm Sunday when he began tweeting from a Marlins-Braves game held at Fort Bragg (N.C.). Now, he finds himself in a he-said-he-said argument with another of baseball’s superfans over the circumstances of his attendance. Hample attended the game looking to add to his collection of more than 9,000 baseballs caught at major league stadiums. The only problem was the game was supposed to be closed…

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Richard Ray reports. Posted:Jul 05 2016 09:43PM CDT Updated:Jul 06 2016 07:23AM CDT Affidavit: Plano baseball player told 5-year-old to keep sex acts ‘a secret’ \n \n News Affidavit: Plano baseball player told 5-year-old to keep sex acts ‘a secret’ An arrest affidavit spells out what a little girl says a highly recruited baseball player from Plano High School allegedly did to her. Much of what she says happened at…

Noted ball-hawk Zack Hample caused a firestorm Sunday when he began tweeting from a Marlins-Braves game held at Fort Bragg (N.C.). Now, he finds himself in a he-said-he-said argument with another of baseball’s superfans over the circumstances of his attendance. Hample attended the game looking to add to his collection of more than 9,000 baseballs caught at major league stadiums. The only problem was the game was supposed to be closed…

Richard Ray reports. Posted:Jul 05 2016 09:43PM CDT Updated:Jul 06 2016 07:23AM CDT Affidavit: Plano baseball player told 5-year-old to keep sex acts ‘a secret’ \n \n News Affidavit: Plano baseball player told 5-year-old to keep sex acts ‘a secret’ An arrest affidavit spells out what a little girl says a highly recruited baseball player from Plano High School allegedly did to her. Much of what she says happened at…

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On Monday, June 27, Kris Bryant had a day for the ages against the Cincinnati Reds, going 5-for-5 with three home runs and two doubles. As this had never happened before in baseball history, tributes to his achievement poured in from all over the baseball landscape. (Except for one Boston hack who sniffed that Bryant was overrated for crushing homers off the likes of Dan Straily and Ross Ohlendorf while…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Wednesday, July 6, featuring all the MLB DFS picks you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. This Playbook is for use with any of the three DFS slates: All Day, Early and Late. We have really only two weather concerns, and both are in Chicago with Reds-Cubs in the afternoon and Yankees-White Sox tonight. There are thunderstorms that will be in the…

Richard Ray reports. Posted:Jul 05 2016 09:43PM CDT Updated:Jul 05 2016 10:08PM CDT Affidavit: Plano baseball player told 5-year-old to keep sex acts ‘a secret’ \n \n News Affidavit: Plano baseball player told 5-year-old to keep sex acts ‘a secret’ An arrest affidavit spells out what a little girl says a highly recruited baseball player from Plano High School allegedly did to her. Much of what she says happened at…

After topping the major leagues during the first half of the season as they seek their first Worold Series title in more than a century, the Chicago Cubs dominated the rosters for next week’s All-Star Game. In the process, they equaled a distinction achieved by the 1963 Cardinals. The Cubs’ entire infield was voted to start the contest, on Tuesday in San Diego — first baseman Anthony…