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Follow @dancahill_cst After putting the Cubs ahead of schedule on their rebuild, defeating the arch-rival Cardinals in the divisional playoffs and making three more big offseason moves, Theo Epstein probably figured he could rest easy last weekend at Cubs Convention. Welp. A woman dressed in a wild Cubs hat and claiming to be an original bleacher bum criticized the Cubs president of baseball operations for not holding on to players…

A roundup of news Monday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs. ——— Jackie Robinson’s widow said Major League Baseball has yet to fully honor her husband’s legacy. “There is a lot more that needs to be done and that can be done in terms of the hiring, the promotion” of minorities in the sport, Rachel Robinson…

print Editor’s note: In the days leading up to Rob Manfred’s one-year anniversary as commissioner on Jan. 25, we asked our writers what one change or innovation they would make to improve baseball if the sport were starting over today. The change: Implement automated strike zones. How it would work: Szymborski: It’s time for MLB to add robot umpires behind home plateStrang: Implement mandatory dugout-to-dugout netting for fan safety Computer…

After Tuesday’s announcement that the Hit King will be joining the Reds Hall of Fame, WLWT heard from one of his longtime supporters. Baseball’s “Hit King” will be inducted into a Hall of Fame this summer. More Watch this story Retired Hamilton County Judge Norbert Nadel ruled in favor of Pete Rose back in 1989, the year he was banned from baseball. Nadel said all this time, he’s never understood…

Deeming baseball a “bourgeois indulgence for the rich,” Mao Zedong, China’s longtime communist leader, banned the game in 1966 during his Cultural Revolution. Fifty years later, even as the popularity of other Western sports such as basketball booms in mainland China, baseball remains largely unfamiliar. But the Baltimore Orioles are in the leadoff spot for a mounting effort by Major League Baseball to revive the game there. Xu Guiyuan, a…

The annual baseball writers’ dinner is a mixture of looking forward and backward. This year’s event, Sunday at the Marriott Grand Hotel downtown, had projections on the upcoming season by general manager John Mozeliak and manager Mike Matheny, a look back at the 2006 World Series championship team and sadder memories of some members of the baseball community who died in 2015. Oh, and there were shots at the Rams….

Jessica Mendoza is a barrier breaker, a pioneer, a woman succeeding in what’s traditionally been a man’s job and that’s made her one of the most polarizing baseball stories of the past six months. And that shouldn’t change as the 2016 MLB season approaches. Last week, ESPN announced that Mendoza will be a full-time analyst for Sunday Night Baseball this season. When opening day rolls around, she’ll be about eight…

Former 2014 top overall pick Brady Aiken, who failed to sign with the Astros without officially being represented by an agent. (Photo: Associated Press) The NCAA might have approved its most radical reinterpretation of the definition of amateurism, but it didn’t come in football or basketball, where the general public tends to take notice. As reported by Baseball America, the NCAA approved new legislation that will allow high school prospects to hire…

The annual baseball writers’ dinner is a mixture of looking forward and backward. This year’s event, Sunday at the Marriott Grand Hotel downtown, had projections on the upcoming season by general manager John Mozeliak and manager Mike Matheny, a look back at the 2006 World Series championship team and sadder memories of some members of the baseball community who died in 2015. Oh, and there were shots at the Rams….

It has been a long time, Rams, so long that the Dodgers played a game in the Coliseum more recently than you have. It has been a long time too, Rams, since you had a winning season. That was 2003, when Eric Gagne won the National League Cy Young Award and the Angels still played at Edison Field. The Dodgers have had 10 winning seasons since then. So have the…

Sammy Sosa has to come clean. A few different connotations in that sentence, aren’t there? Will he do it? Will he publicly admit that he used performance-enhancing drugs to help him hit all those home runs? That seems to be the only thing separating him from the Cubs’ good graces. Chairman Tom Ricketts reiterated Saturday at the Cubs Convention what he had said in an interview with 670 The Score…

West Seattle Blog 8 hours ago Noon-3 pm today at Kitty Harbor. … See MoreSee Less We had a fantastic adoption day at Kitty Harbor…. 59 kitties are in their new homes tonight! A HUGE Thank You to all the adopters, Prevent Homeless Pets, the volunteers and our Facebook fans. We have 9 amazing kitties that are still looking for their new forever homes and will be available for adoption…

As noted by our compadres over at Eye On Football, the Rams have left St. Louis is favor of Los Angeles — a move that’s a source of vague and glancing discomfort in St. Louis and ringing apathy in L.A. The move has also rendered useless two or maybe three piles of St. Louis Rams jerseys and t-shirts. To the end of un-burdening the people of these suddenly unwanted textiles,…

Baseball teams are paying as much as 100 percent more to rent diamonds across the county this season, a change that has already contributed to reduced use at one field and could lead to more cutbacks. The biggest increase comes at Gene Lobe Field No. 1 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, home to the Kitsap BlueJackets, where rates jumped from $15…

Luis Clemente couldn’t help but think of his father as he watched the Field of Dreams Ghost Players conduct their world-renowned baseball clinic and comedy routine last winter. Nine ballplayers from Dubuque County paid their own way to Puerto Rico to spread a positive message through baseball to impoverished youth often tempted by the lure of drugs and gangs. The tour fit perfectly with the life’s work of Roberto Clemente….

Click photo to enlarge Tony DeRusso, left, executive director of the Antioch Babe Ruth League, and Anthony Davis, the operations director, both of Brentwood, sits on rolls of artificial turf that await being rolled onto many of the Babe Ruth fields off Auto Center Drive in Antioch, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Many changes are in store for the badly deteriorated fields. New sod and artificial sod await being…

CDP 0626 UVAbaseball178.JPG Virginia head baseball coach Brian O’Connor holds up the NCAA championship trophy during the Virginia baseball Championship Celebration Wednesday at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va. Virginia defeated Vanderbilt after a 3-game series to win their first ever College World Series. Photo/The Daily Progress/Andrew Shurtleff Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 10:56 pm Catching up with UVa baseball coach Brian O’Connor By Andrew Ramspacher The Daily…

Jan. 16 may be a strange date to discuss baseball, but when it’s 50 degrees outside and Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia is on Long Island, you discuss baseball. Scioscia was the guest of honor Saturday at Ward Melville, where a panel of sports doctors discussed injury prevention. One doctor likened the overuse of young pitching arms to abuse. …