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Springfield/Clark County Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Jim Hardman: Southeastern High School coach from 1951-55, winning three league championships, two district titles … helped establish Southeastern football program … Piqua High School coach for 26 years, winning 12 league championships, two district championships … won 522 games as high school coach … won 654 games as Piqua American Legion coach … had 27 players sign pro contracts … inducted into…

Area high school baseball players were given the opportunity Saturday to showcase their talent in front of coaches and scouts while also getting valuable advice from important figures. Matt Childers’ Complete Game indoor baseball facility was the site for a strong turnout of area players to hit, pitch and catch in front of several college coaches and professional scouts. The players went through rounds of hitting in the cages, and…

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Posted: Saturday, January 9, 2016 12:00 am Former Aggie baseball coach says Goertz, Olsen made for special combination By MARK JOHNSON Special to The Eagle The Eagle | 0 comments … it’s just like that sometimes. Things just match up, they connect, they click. Call it chemistry, a bond, a respect … call it love. It was that way with Leo Goertz and Olsen Field, a 35-year relationship. He took care…

ST. LOUIS • The harbingers of the baseball season, which bring flocks to St. Louis every January, begin Friday evening with a coaches’ convention in St. Charles that will feature the return of several former Cardinals coaches and Ryan Ludwick, perhaps a future one. The Midwest Baseball & Softball Coaches Convention opens Friday at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa. Baseball has a two-day event with softball events coming on Saturday. A…

ST. LOUIS • The harbingers of the baseball season, which bring flocks to St. Louis every January, begin Friday evening with a coaches’ convention in St. Charles that will feature the return of several former Cardinals coaches and Ryan Ludwick, perhaps a future one. The Midwest Baseball & Softball Coaches Convention opens Friday at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa. Baseball has a two-day event with softball events coming on Saturday. A…

ST. LOUIS • The harbingers of the baseball season, which bring flocks to St. Louis every January, begin Friday evening with a coaches’ convention in St. Charles that will feature the return of several former Cardinals coaches and Ryan Ludwick, perhaps a future one. The Midwest Baseball & Softball Coaches Convention opens Friday at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa. Baseball has a two-day event with softball events coming on Saturday. A…

San Diego State baseball players reconvene next week when practice begins for the 2016 season, which opens the weekend of Feb. 19 with a three-game series against Oregon. While there will be many storylines for an Aztecs team that has won back-to-back-to-back Mountain West tournament championships, I am especially intrigued to see what role Calvin Munson could play with the team this season. Munson was a key figure on a…

Theft in professional baseball used to be about stealing bases and signs. But not any more—not in the era of big data. The St. Louis Cardinals’ former scouting chief pleaded guilty Friday in a Texas federal courtroom to five hacking counts (PDF) in connection to unlawfully accessing a highly confidential database of another Major League Baseball (MLB) team, the Houston Astros. Court documents said Christopher Correa guessed the password to the Astros’…

In 2012, unsafe amounts of Michael Bay leaked into the Los Angeles groundwater, and the Dodgers showed the most noticeable effects. They had new owners who wanted to make a statement, and they couldn’t just make their statement by raising their collective voices. They needed explosions. Lots of them. Pyrotechnics and CGI. Trading for a half-billion worth of contracts just to get Adrian Gonzalez was supposed to hook you like…

Brent Rooker was one of a handful of Bulldogs that helped Mississippi State shine during summer league baseball.(Photo: Mississippi State) STARKVILLE — The new year is already treating Mississippi State baseball better than 2015. The program received the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball (NACSB) Most Valuable Program Award on Thursday night. The award honors the college baseball program considered to be the most valuable during summer baseball. The NACSB had…

ST. LOUIS • The harbingers of the baseball season, which bring flocks to St. Louis every January, begin Friday evening with a coaches’ convention in St. Charles that will feature the return of several former Cardinals coaches and Ryan Ludwick, perhaps a future one. The Midwest Baseball & Softball Coaches Convention opens Friday at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa. Baseball has a two-day event with softball events coming on Saturday. A…

There never really was concern about which hat Ken Griffey Jr. would wear on his plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Perhaps the bigger question was if that cap will be backward. On Thursday at the annual Baseball Hall of Fame news conference in New York, Griffey confirmed what long had been expected — announcing he would be inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Mariner. “I’m going…

By the numbers, Piazza was a cert for the Hall. He’s a 12-time all-star, possibly the best-hitting catcher in the sport’s history with 427 career home runs (a record for the position), and his career is a classic Cinderella story. He was picked in the 62nd round of the 1988 draft, as the 1390th overall player, by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a favor to his father, who was friends…

When it comes to Baseball Hall of Fame voting, close calls almost always lead to candidates being elected in the near future … often the very next year. Going by a lot of past history, we thus can expect Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines to be part of the 2017 class and for Trevor Hoffman to get in next year or the year after. PLUS: Piazza going into HOF as a Met…

The Jacksonville Suns baseball team wants to double its workforce for the upcoming baseball season and seek candidates for seasonal jobs at the organization’s job fair Saturday. The Suns already employ about 60 workers to handle food and beverage concessions at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, but they want to expand that number by as many as 100 employees. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday…

print NEW YORK — Ken Griffey Jr. was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Wednesday with the highest voting percentage ever, and Mike Piazza will join him in Cooperstown this summer. A star slugger during the steroids era who was never tainted by accusations of drug use, Griffey appeared on 437 of 440 ballots in his first appearance on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot. His 99.3 percentage…

Baseball’s Hall of Fame welcomed two new members Wednesday night in outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. and former Mets‘ catcher Mike Piazza, voted in by the Baseball Writers’ of America Association. Griffey received 99.3 percent of the vote—the highest percentage ever for a player—while Piazza received 83.0 of the vote. (A total of 440 ballots were cast.) Both will be inducted into Cooperstown later this year. Below is everything you may have missed…

Goodbye, steroid era.

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