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No. 6 LSU’s six-game win streak came to a close Friday night at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field after the Tigers dropped the series opener to Ball State, 7-1. With the loss, the Tigers fell to 10-3 on the year, while Ball State improved to 8-7. Due to the rain forecast, the start time of Game 2 of the series has been moved from 2:00 p.m. CT to 6:30…

(Seth Perlman/Associated Press) The phrase “back in my day” evokes a certain fervor among baseball purists. Just ask Goose Gossage. For 91-year-old Donald Trump supporter Phyllis Schlafly, her feelings take that phrase to a whole new level. Schlafly is a well-known conservative activist who endorsed Trump at a St. Louis rally Friday, saying “he has the courage and the energy … in order to bring some changes.” Some of those changes involve Trump deporting illegal…

Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Nationals OF Bryce Harper is one of the big personalities in baseball and the MVP says the game shouldn’t frown upon displayed emotions, a notion that Mets 3B David Wright gets. PORT ST. LUCIE — There’s a reason why David Wright was dubbed Captain America by his fellow teammates on the World Baseball Classic team three years ago. He’s a smart, likeable, funny man who is…

White Sox third baseman Todd Frazier said Friday he doesn’t mind a little extra celebration or entertainment on the field, even if baseball’s unwritten rules tend to discourage it. “I love that stuff,” Frazier said. “I’m not a guy who does it a lot, but in the heat of the moment, I’ll pump my fist. I’m not trying to show anybody up or anything. I don’t think (baseball) needs to…

On the same day Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper was celebrated by fans for taking a stand against baseball’s silly unwritten rules, Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage ripped several stars including Harper and condemned the “nerds running the game” in an expletive-laced rant. In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN, the 64-year-old criticized modern relievers for pitching fewer innings than he did, railed against Ryan Braun and other steroid users,…

On the same day Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper was celebrated by fans for taking a stand against baseball’s silly unwritten rules, Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage ripped several stars including Harper and condemned the “nerds running the game” in an expletive-laced rant. In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN, the 64-year-old criticized modern relievers for pitching fewer innings than he did, railed against Ryan Braun and other steroid users,…

On the same day Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper was celebrated by fans for taking a stand against baseball’s silly unwritten rules, Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage ripped several stars including Harper and condemned the “nerds running the game” in an expletive-laced rant. In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN, the 64-year-old criticized modern relievers for pitching fewer innings than he did, railed against Ryan Braun and other steroid users,…

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The time has finally arrived. Before we know it, real, meaningful baseball games will be taking place across the country. Fantasy baseball draft season, of course, is even closer. There’s no better way to start preparing for your draft or auction than with the SI.com overall and positional rankings. Our rankings look a little different this season. Below, we have the top 250, which is sortable by position. But if…

Last summer, an independent professional baseball team let a robotic umpire call balls and strikes for a game. (Humans were still on hand to announce the results and make calls on foul balls and plays at the plate.) As futuristic as this sounds, this very technology, called PITCHf/x, was installed in every Major League Baseball stadium several years ago, in 2007. And though robot umps have yet to call professional…

On the same day Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper was celebrated by fans for taking a stand against baseball’s silly unwritten rules, Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage ripped several stars including Harper and condemned the “nerds running the game” in an expletive-laced rant. In a wide-ranging interview with ESPN, the 64-year-old criticized modern relievers for pitching fewer innings than he did, railed against Ryan Braun and other steroid users,…

I’d decorate my house in flipped bats if I could. I’d line the doorways, use the barrels for crown molding. I might buy a baby tree just so I can use flipped bats as support stakes. Because the bat flip is a thing of joy. It’s a product of unadulterated baseball love. And it pisses off every mothballed curmudgeon who would see their favorite sport wither and die before they’d…

Math has taken over baseball. Hall of Fame pitcher Rich “Goose” Gossage despises it. Goose, as the retired reliever is commonly known, let loose on the state of the game during an interview with ESPN on Thursday. The former New York Yankees great was working with the team’s current players at a spring training facility in Florida. The 64-year-old Gossage showed plenty of pepper, as well as vinegar, in an…

Love him or hate him, Nationals wunderkind Bryce Harper is unquestionably one of the best players in baseball. He just had one of the greatest seasons by a 22-year-old ever, hitting .330/.460/.649 (195 OPS+) with 42 home runs. That earned him the NL MVP unanimously. And yet, it seems the majority of baseball fans don’t like Harper. He’s brash, he’s arrogant, and he’s been in the public eye since high…

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11:41 AM ET print Numbers speak to me. All my life, I’ve been fascinated by numbers, especially baseball statistics. Just like the written word, stats spin their own baseball tales, and as I grew up increasingly mesmerized by our great game, it was the numbers that had me most captivated. Even as I began my career an art student, baseball always lurked beneath. For more than 10 years, I told…

This article was published in the March 11, 1995 edition of the Chicago Tribune. One piece of the Michael Jordan puzzle was put into place Friday when he announced he was abandoning his quest of playing major-league baseball. But for Chicagoans anxiously awaiting the insertion of the final puzzle piece-the sight of Jordan wearing his old No. 23 for the Bulls again-the wait will go on. Unlike his famous goodbye kiss to the Chicago Stadium, Jordan said farewell to…

HE WANTS TO change the game. He wants to change the perception of baseball players, to become a single-name icon like LeBron and Beckham and Cam. “I don’t know much about Bryce,” says his new manager, Dusty Baker, “but I know he’s one of the hippest kids around.” Harper wants to elevate his sport’s profile through his play, through his fashion, through the charisma of his personality, maybe even through…

TAMPA, Fla. — Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage called Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista a “disgrace to the game” and blasted “nerds” for turning baseball into a “joke” during a 10-minute interview Thursday. “Bautista is a f—ing disgrace to the game,” Gossage told ESPN. “He’s embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in…