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Click photo to enlarge LOS ANGELES (AP) — Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams may never be a household name like baseball’s imagined inventor Abner Doubleday or basketball’s actual inventor James Naismith. But a newly verified set of documents, titled “Laws of Base Ball,” sold at auction early Sunday for nearly $3.3 million, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status. They lend him credit for the distance of the…

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<!– –> Sports Breaking| Top News <!—-> ASSOCIATED PRESS This Feb. 11 photo provided by SCP Auctions shows the 1857 documents titled “Laws of Base Ball.” LOS ANGELES >> Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Baseball” sold today to an anonymous buyer after more than two…

LOS ANGELES – Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Baseball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million. The…

11:35 AM ET print Documents laying out some of the original “Laws of Base Ball” sold for $3.26 million early Sunday morning, setting a new record for the highest-priced baseball document. A spokesman from SCP Auctions told ESPN that the buyer wished to remain anonymous. The price paid is the third-most for a piece of sports memorabilia. SCP sold a 1920 Yankees’ Babe Ruth jersey for $4.4 million in 2012,…

Caption Close LOS ANGELES — Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams may never be a household name like baseball’s imagined inventor, Abner Doubleday, or basketball’s actual inventor James Naismith. But a verified set of documents, titled “Laws of Base Ball,” being sold at an auction that ended Saturday, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status. They lend him credit for the distance of the base paths at 90 feet,…

Caption Close LOS ANGELES — Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams may never be a household name like baseball’s imagined inventor, Abner Doubleday, or basketball’s actual inventor James Naismith. But a verified set of documents, titled “Laws of Base Ball,” being sold at an auction that ended Saturday, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status. They lend him credit for the distance of the base paths at 90 feet,…

Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams may never be a household name like baseball’s imagined inventor Abner Doubleday or basketball’s actual inventor James Naismith. But a newly verified set of documents, titled “Laws of Base Ball,” being sold at an auction that ends Saturday, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status. They lend him credit for the distance of the base paths at 90 feet, the length of the…

Daniel Murphy. (Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post) Maybe this is rooted in superstition, but when Daniel Murphy talks about hitting and his success at it, he repeats this phrase often — “pitch in the zone I’m looking in and try to get my A swing off” — and doesn’t say much beyond that. Perhaps after seven years in the big leagues, he has learned by trial and error…

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The Katy High School varsity baseball team is forfeiting 20 games because of a UIL rule violation. Two players were paid to to be Little League assistants during this season, which a 19-6A District Executive Committee found violated the amateur athletic rule on Friday. Katy played Strake Jesuit Friday night and the boys’ parents believe the teens didn’t do anything wrong. The parents say they checked the rules before accepting…

12:37 AM ET print CINCINNATI — Chicago Cubs left-hander Jon Lester admitted it was on his mind. What if he could throw a second consecutive no-hitter for the Cubs? It seemed crazy, but so did a 13-4 start for the team known as “lovable losers.” The Cubs keep proving they’re anything but losers as they beat the Reds for the fifth time this season Friday night, 8-1, behind Lester’s seven…

Ryan M. Kelly Virginia baseball Posted: Friday, April 22, 2016 4:22 pm Driver who lost consciousness in UVa baseball team’s bus crash dies BY ANDREW RAMSPACHER The Daily Progress Posted on Apr 22, 2016 by Andrew Ramspacher UPDATED with quote from UVa coach Brian O’Connor  Bernard Martin, the Virginia baseball team’s bus driver who lost consciousness behind the wheel late Thursday afternoon in Miami, died shortly after arriving at Mercy…

Why do you watch baseball? I watch it because it brings me joy. I don’t take life lessons from it. I don’t look for meaning. I don’t revere heroes (Jackie Robinson excepted). No, for me baseball gives me a little bit of joy day in and day out during the season. I have to imagine that you experience something similar. The other day, Michael Bradburn wrote about how baseball is,…

Thursday, April 21PACKERS Tom Silverstein, beat writer Read Transcript 2016 NFL Draft: Get news, Packers picks, draft basics, mock drafts and more By Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel Imagine someone walking into the offices of Bill Belichick or Ted Thompson…

Caption Close The Katy baseball team hoped its next game would be another step toward the playoffs. But making the playoffs is now out of the question. The 19-6A Executive Committee unanimously voted Friday that senior Katy baseball players Hayden Baker and Grant Jackman violated the UIL amateur athletic rule when they were paid to help coach a local Little League baseball team. The executive committee also unanimously…

The first National League baseball game was played on April 22, 1876, between the Boston Red Stockings and the Philadelphia Athletics. But it would take nearly a century before baseball fans and officials recognized that day as the birthday of Major League Baseball. See More: Start the Season Right With These 19th-Century Baseball Portraits As MLB historian John Thorn has explained, there were a few different dates in the running…

WCAV UVa team bus crashes The screenshot from WCAV in Charlottesville shows the UVa team bus and two cars involved in the crash. Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 10:15 pm Bus carrying UVa baseball team involved in crash in Miami BY ANDREW RAMSPACHER The Daily Progress Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia baseball players and staff members came away without injury following a bus crash in Miami late Thursday afternoon. The Cavaliers, in…

A good leadoff hitter is hard to find. This is true in actually baseball team-building, to be sure, but also in Fantasy baseball. Leadoff hitters typically won’t help you out much with RBI, but if you’re at the top of the order of a great offense and can get on base consistently, runs will flow in. When you think great offenses in 2016, your mind should go pretty much right…

Boys dominate high school baseball, but maybe it’s time to encourage girls to play. (via K.M. Klemencic) Major League Baseball is the biggest corporation associated with baseball. In many ways, it affects the way we see and interpret the game, but it is not the only place where the game is played. People play baseball all over the world, with varying rules and at very different skill levels. Some people…