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General manager Matt Klentak previously worked with new Phillies assistant GM Ned Rice in the Baltimore Orioles’ front office. (USA Today Images)

Last year we showed you multiple cities claiming to have hosted baseball’s first night game. It’s time for a new investigation. At least five different home runs have been defined as the longest in professional baseball history. Which story is correct? A conclusive answer seems far away. Carlsbad, N.M. – On a hot August night in 1959, former heavyweight boxer Gil Carter smashed a pitch through Carlsbad’s high-elevated air and out of Montgomery Field. The ball carried over the left field…

Steve Sotir knows he’ll miss Fort Wayne, but his love of baseball is leading him to Texas. Sotir, the successful Homestead High School baseball coach and key contributor to the Fort Wayne-based World Baseball Academy, will move to El Paso, Texas, in February to take a position running a baseball academy and four-field complex. “The thought of returning to a full-time baseball job and helping build this facility…

  Luzerne County’s lawsuit aiming to gain half of the $14.6 million sale of the Moosic-based Triple-A minor league baseball franchise might be moving closer to a settlement. Attorney Frank J. Tunis Jr., the lawyer representing the Lackawanna County Stadium Authority, said he and lawyers for Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will likely meet soon again for another mediation session to attempt a resolution. …

The Kansas City Chiefs won their first playoff game in 22 years on Saturday, toppling the Houston Texans by the score of 30-0. It was a totally one-sided affair, as the Chiefs returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and never looked back. .@Chiefs are now chanting: “JUST LIKE BASEBALL.” pic.twitter.com/dtA24kNLbV — ESPN Monday Night (@ESPNMondayNight) January 10, 2016 Toward the end of the game, some particularly vocal…

Star center fielder Jim Edmonds, league championship series Most Valuable Player Jeff Suppan and Cardinals leader in career saves Jason Isringhausen will be among the members of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals to be honored next Sunday night at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ Dinner at the Marriott Grand. Suppan, who won his award for his pitching in the league championship series victory over the New York Mets…

Hendersonville High School baseball coaches Mike Hendrix and Andy Gilley recently showed off the school’s newly installed turf infield at Drakes Creek Park.(Photo: Tena Lee/Hendersonville Star News) They were coming before it was built. Still, Hendersonville High School’s baseball coaches have dubbed their newly installed turf infield – the first one in the state for a high school team – their own “Field of Dreams.” Located in Hendersonville’s Drakes Creek…

Star center fielder Jim Edmonds, league championship series Most Valuable Player Jeff Suppan and Cardinals leader in career saves Jason Isringhausen will be among the members of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals to be honored next Sunday night at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ Dinner at the Marriott Grand. Suppan, who won his award for his pitching in the league championship series victory over the New York Mets…

Luzerne County’s lawsuit aiming to gain half of the $14.6 million sale of the Moosic-based Triple-A minor league baseball franchise might be moving closer to a settlement. Attorney Frank J. Tunis Jr., the lawyer representing the Lackawanna County Stadium Authority, said he and lawyers for Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will likely meet soon again for another mediation session to attempt a resolution. They last met…

Appreciators of baseball history have a fairly common list of greatest players from the Negro leagues. Satchel Paige is usually at the top. Then Josh Gibson. Buck Leonard. James “Cool Papa” Bell. Then there’s Joe Williams. A regular on various lists Negro league bests, but not often considered the best. Perhaps it was his earlier start, with professional pitching records dating back to 1911, 16 years before Paige’s pro debut….

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Hendersonville High School baseball coaches Mike Hendrix and Andy Gilley recently showed off the school’s newly installed turf infield at Drakes Creek Park.(Photo: Tena Lee/Hendersonville Star News) They were coming before it was built. Still, Hendersonville High School’s baseball coaches have dubbed their newly installed turf infield – the first one in the state for a high school team – their own “Field of Dreams.” Located in Hendersonville’s Drakes Creek…

For the decade of the 1990s, there was surely no baseball player more popular across America than Ken Griffey Jr.. His smooth swing, graceful defense, infectious smile and backwards cap made him a athletic and pop culture icon, and on Wednesday, that combination of overwhelming popularity and remarkable talent left him with the largest percentage of Hall of Fame votes in history. Griffey and Mike Piazza were announced this week…

The 2016 Baseball Prospect Book is progressing well and we are still accepting pre-orders. The book will contain analysis and scouting information for approximately 1000 minor league players from all 30 MLB organizations. The book is not available in stores and can only be ordered directly from me. You can use Paypal via Johnsickels.net, or you can send a check or money order to John SickelsPO Box 4066Lawrence, KS …

I try very hard not to care about baseball’s Hall of Fame. It’s a complete sham–a lot of the players enshrined in Cooperstown are there because they played at the right time, with the right teammates. Frankie Frisch and his cronies, who held sway over the Veterans Committee in the late ’60s and ’70s, packed the place with old-timers who had a good season or two back in the 1930s….

Look around the Eastern League, and we have bickering in Hartford, discontent in Richmond and hopes for stability in Binghamton. The Portland Sea Dogs are supposed to make their first trip to the new Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford April 21-24. But the Sea Dogs can plan for a detour. Construction delays and cost overruns are causing a political nightmare. “It is clear that the baseball park is dangerously behind…

I try very hard not to care about baseball’s Hall of Fame. It’s a complete sham–a lot of the players enshrined in Cooperstown are there because they played at the right time, with the right teammates. Frankie Frisch and his cronies, who held sway over the Veterans Committee in the late ’60s and ’70s, packed the place with old-timers who had a good season or two back in the 1930s….

Jay Sartori is new to the Detroit Tigers baseball organization as the teams senior director of baseball operations and head of its analytical department. Sartori who was photographed in the press box at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 comes to the Tigers from Apple. (Photo: Eric Seals, DFP) It wasn’t the game. Jay Sartori still followed baseball from afar after leaving the front office of the…

Posted Jan. 9, 2016 at 5:28 PM