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A collegiate baseball team in Georgia adopted a puppy as their “bat dog” after it was found abandoned in their stadium. The Savannah Bananas announced earlier this week that team president Jared Orton and his wife Kelsey adopted 7-week-old Daisy. The puppy was found crying in Grayson Stadium parking lot with no identifiable tags, according to the team’s website. The Savannah Bananas/Facebook A baseball team in Savannah Georgia, The Savannah…

Class AAAA The win­ner will be: Plum. There’s no rea­son to pick any­one other than the first team to en­ter the post­sea­son un­de­feated (19-0) since Cal­i­for­nia two years ago and first to do so in Class AAAA since Nor­win in 2012. And of course, the Mustangs fea­ture star se­nior out­fielder/​pitcher Alex Kirill­off, a likely first-round pick in the MLB draft next month. …

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A collegiate baseball team in Georgia adopted a puppy as their “bat dog” after it was found abandoned in their stadium. The Savannah Bananas announced earlier this week that team president Jared Orton and his wife Kelsey adopted 7-week-old Daisy. The puppy was found crying in Grayson Stadium parking lot with no identifiable tags, according to the team’s website. The Savannah Bananas/Facebook A baseball team in Savannah Georgia, The Savannah…

Photo Courtesy: Amy Williams, SGHS student GREENSBORO, N.C. – If you asked 15-year-old Kendal Clark if he was any different from other kids his age, his answer would be a swift and hard no. If you looked at the Southern Guilford High School Sophomore play a game of baseball, it would be difficult to tell Kendal only has one arm. Kendal was born without his left arm as a result…

NEW YORK — A baseball pioneer who has rested in an unmarked grave since he died in 1899 will finally get the recognition he craved when a cemetery unveils his gravestone. The home-plate-shaped monument honoring James Whyte Davis will be unveiled at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Saturday. Davis started playing baseball in the 1840s at the dawn of the game and was president of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of…

Thomas Paine, hell-raising writer and Founding Father, today would have had to write it in reverse: “These are the souls that try men’s times.” Look what they’ve done to my game, Ma, Part I: The biggest big league baseball stories continue to make little news and noise as Rob Manfred and his Merry Band of Team Owners continue to rob from The Game and keep it. Sunday, the latest in…

John Lackey has had a great career renaissance over the past few years. This season with the Chicago Cubs, he has had a really nice start going 4-2 with a 3.54 ERA in seven appearances. But on Wednesday night, the 37-year-old showed why he’s exactly what’s wrong with baseball right now. Lackey was cruising against the San Diego Padres, having retired the first 14 batters he faced, when catcher Christian Bethancourt stepped…

A spot in history is now within the sights of the Plum baseball team. It’s a “perfect” spot for the Mustangs — right next to Joe Namath. You may ask what in the name of Broadway Joe would a WPIAL baseball team have in common with a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback? It’s about a baseball story with the perfect ending. …

John Lackey has had a great career renaissance over the past few years. This season with the Chicago Cubs, he has had a really nice start going 4-2 with a 3.54 ERA in seven appearances. But on Wednesday night, the 37-year-old Lackey showed why he’s exactly what’s wrong with baseball right now. Lackey was cruising against the San Diego Padres, having retired the first 14 batters he faced, when catcher Christian Bethancourt…

https://serve.castfire.com/s:5L8r1/audio/2752096/whatsthepoint_2016-05-12-144336.64k.mp3?ad_params=zones%3DPreroll%2CPreroll2%2CMidroll%2CMidroll2%2CMidroll3%2CMidroll4%2CMidroll5%2CMidroll6%2CPostroll%2CPostroll2%7Cstation_id%3D3138 Subscribe: iTunes | Download | RSS | Video Some people daydream about becoming professional baseball players. Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller daydream about being general managers. The two co-host the “Effectively Wild” podcast for Baseball Prospectus (Ben is also a writer for this site), and last summer they learned that one of their listeners was the media relations director for the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor-league baseball team in…

Here’s a look at some of baseball’s notable knuckleballers (you can find an extensive list here): Jim Bouton Though this righthander did not always throw the knuckleball, he began develop it about a third of the way into his career after being plagued by injuries. Tom Candiotti Advertisement After Tommy John surgery, Candiotti switched to the knuckleball full time after signing with the Cleveland Indians for the 1986 season. R.A….

Joel Alterman’s love affair with baseball began innocently that night. He was 9 years old, and his father thought a boy his age needed to know the game. Joel didn’t know a home run from a first down. But it didn’t matter. It was early in the 1954 season, and Ponce de Leon Park was the place to be — even if you knew nothing about baseball — because the…

These days, very few historically black colleges and universities have majority-black teams. The Clark Atlanta Panthers are a remarkable exception. Credit Photograph by Oscar Daniels It’s a Wednesday afternoon in April, and Bill Evans Field is dotted with players taking batting practice, fielding grounders, shagging flies. The Clark Atlanta Panthers practice on a lot at the corner of Princeton Drive and College Street in College Park, Georgia, behind the library,…

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“No,” Jake Arrieta said, he doesn’t believe in the concept of taking a hometown discount, sending a point-blank message through the reporters crowded around his locker wanting a reaction to Stephen Strasburg’s seven-year, $175 million extension with the Washington Nationals. The Cubs can’t just sell Arrieta on Wrigley Field’s atmosphere, his friendships in the clubhouse and the chance to make history. Losing as a winning recruiting pitch can only go…

Bryce Harper was fined and suspended on Wednesday. While Major League Baseball is at it, it should give him a big pat on the back as well. The one-game suspension is just. Harper should also apologize for breaking a rule and so overtly cussing. But then he should say he’ll probably do it again, because he loves competing and he just might lose his mind every single time someone messes…

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What’s better than hitting a home run? Hitting a home run and getting free beer! Former MLB player Brandon Laird is playing in Japan for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (yes, HAM FIGHTERS) and managed to net himself a big reward. Hitting off fellow major leaguer Brandon Dickson, Laird went deep to left field and bounced his homer off a Kirin beer sign. That might seem routine until you…

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