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WASHINGTON — The annual Congressional Baseball Game is an only-in-Washington kind of event. Played at Nationals Park in front of a healthy crowd of rowdy spectators, Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate lace up their cleats, throw on uniforms and play honest-to-goodness hardball on the big-league diamond for bragging rights and to raise money for charity. And while the wonky cheers from the crowd may differ from your…

Last summer, an independent-league baseball team in California called the Sonoma Stompers entrusted its season to us, two writers with backgrounds in baseball statistics. We signed players, guided strategy and told the fielders where to stand for the most effective defense. We had no experience running a team, but we did have data, and we promised the owner of the Stompers that we would use it to build a new…

The forthcoming Olympic Games will shine a light on events that rarely appear on television screens, from archery and canoeing to equestrian and sailing. Yet one sport that won’t have its moment in the Rio sun – despite an intriguing Olympic history and a growing footprint in Brazil – is baseball. America’s national pastime had its Olympic debut as an exhibition sport at the 1904 Games in St…

The City Council of Arlington, Texas, approved a plan last month to contribute half the $1 billion cost of a new, air-conditioned baseball stadium for the Texas Rangers. If all goes to plan, it will be the team’s third stadium since it relocated from Washington in the early 1970s. Taken together with other recent deals, it sure looks as though American cities are on the verge of another stadium building…

Walking into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, James Sass knows what every player wants from him before anyone utters a word. “They’re all looking for the same thing,” he says. “The biggest barrel they can get with the lightest swing weight.” Mr. Sass, 50, is head of professional baseball sales for Louisville Slugger. He’s on the road at…

LOS ANGELES — Yasiel Puig was wearing his “Make Baseball Fun Again” cap after Wednesday night’s game. Did he ever. Puig raced home for the winning run on his own single after center fielder Michael Taylor let the ball skip by him for a three-base error, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to beat the Washington Nationals 4-3. Puig broke into a sprint at first base after Taylor overran the rolling…

Walking into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, James Sass knows what every player wants from him before anyone utters a word. “They’re all looking for the same thing,” he says. “The biggest barrel they can get with the lightest swing weight.” Mr. Sass, 50, is head of professional baseball sales for Louisville Slugger. He’s on the road at…

Walking into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, James Sass knows what every player wants from him before anyone utters a word. “They’re all looking for the same thing,” he says. “The biggest barrel they can get with the lightest swing weight.” Mr. Sass, 50, is head of professional baseball sales for Louisville Slugger. He’s on the road at…

Related Coverage BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — Expect to see a lot of guns at the Battle Creek Bombers baseball game Friday for an event focused on the Second Amendment. Together with a sponsor, the Bombers are hosting “2nd Amendment Education Night” at Friday night’s 7 p.m. game at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek. “It’s as American as baseball and apple pie, right? Firearms are, too. They’re part of…

Walking into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, James Sass knows what every player wants from him before anyone utters a word. “They’re all looking for the same thing,” he says. “The biggest barrel they can get with the lightest swing weight.” Mr. Sass, 50, is head of professional baseball sales for Louisville Slugger. He’s on the road at…

If there’s one thing that Narrows Baseball Club does well, it’s getting players noticed. The select travel-program, which primarily draws from the Gig Harbor area, but also as far as Silverdale and Olympia, puts its players on the radars of college coaches and scouts. “Our program is well enough known now, that we get a lot of colleges calling and coming out,” said Jon Fuller, coach of the 18U Narrows…

In the season’s biggest moments, Mundelein turned to its best player. Junior pitcher Brendan Murphy led the Mustangs (31-10) to the Class 4A state championship game with a 13-strikeout performance against Warren to win a sectional title, then tossed a complete game as Mundelein rallied past St. Charles North in the state semifinals for its first berth in the title game. The Arizona State recruit led Mundelein with a 10-2…

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For baseball prospects, choosing whether to turn pro right out of high school or accept a college athletic scholarship can be one of the most difficult choices of their young lives. Though turning pro is a dream for almost all players, minor-league ball comes with never-ending bus trips and a paycheck often between $1,100 and $2,500 a month, in-season only. Players drafted in the early rounds usually receive a substantial…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Also, please scroll to the bottom of this article to see the latest tweets from Ryan Fowler (@FOXSportsFowler), D.J. Foster (@FOXSportsFoster), Adam Meyer (@FOXSportsMeyer) and me (@jhalpin37). That way, if information surfaces for any last minute changes, you can see our thoughts…

Few athletes can change the course of two professional sports with one decision, but Bo Jackson did just that 30 years ago today. Jackson, the the 1985 Heisman Trophy winner and the No. 1 overall pick in the 1986 NFL Draft, was also a star baseball player at Auburn and a fourth-round pick of the Kansas City Royals only weeks after the NFL’s Buccaneers pinned the future of their franchise…

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Want an example of the financial disparity that continues to trouble baseball despite the sport’s best efforts to achieve competitive balance? Consider that in the most recent signing period, the Dodgers‘ total expenditure on international amateurs was higher than the Opening Day payrolls of six clubs. The Dodgers spent about $96 million, according to major-league sources — about $48 million on bonuses and another $48 million in penalties for exceeding…

Bobby DeWitt feared he would never get to coach the Wayzata baseball team again. DeWitt had to step away from coaching for the 2015 season to stay home with his son, Sam, after his wife and his other son, William, had to live in Illinois because of radiation treatment William received for cancer. Related Articles State baseball: Henry Sibley goes from last in conference to 3A state champ State baseball:…

Henry Sibley players lift their trophy after beating the Mahtomedi Zephyrs 8-4 to win the Class 3A championship in the State Baseball Tournament at Target Field in Minneapolis, Monday, June 20, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi) Mahtomedi’s Jack Schwietz was the starting pitcher as the Henry Sibley Warriors played the Zephyrs 8-4 in the Class 3A championship in the State Baseball Tournament at Target Field in Minneapolis, Monday, June 20,…