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David Price could be attractive to a number of AL East teams. (Fred Thornhill/AP Photo) This week, with the winter meetings approaching next Monday in Nashville, we planned to take a look at baseball’s five most interesting teams this offseason. The problem: the Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles and Blue Jays could all fall into that territory. So we start with something of a twist: The American League East, the Most Interesting…

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Hessman’s is a true baseball life – not that of a storied major-league slugger, or a fire-balling ace who won 300 games – but a player who epitomizes the never-say-die attitude at the heart of many a great sports story. That perseverance deserves recognition, and today, we’re going to highlight Hessman’s career through a few key facts and graphics to try to capture just how special and zany it was….

Even before Siegal joined the A’s, 2015 had seen a number of positive signs for women in America’s pastime. Siegal, who runs a nonprofit to promote girls’ baseball, brought together 12 teams from across the country in June for the first-ever national girls baseball tournament in Florida. Later that month, Melissa Mayeux, a 16-year-old French shortstop, became the first girl ever added to MLB’s international prospect list, making her eligible to…

Another entertainment mogul is getting into the baseball business — and with a splash. Magnus Media, a company founded by Marc Anthony, announced on Monday the inception of Magnus Sports, a division dedicated to representing major athletes. The company said in a news release that it will team with a baseball agency, Praver Shapiro Sports Management — and that the group’s first major client will be Reds closer Aroldis Chapman….

For many players, Philadelphia becomes merely a second home. What we aim to do with the “Philadelphia Baseball Ghosts” series is take a look at those who are born within Philadelphia city limits before they set off on their grand baseball adventure somewhere else in the vast, horrible world. Past entries: William “Yank” Robinson Harry “Socks” Seibold John Francis “Phenomenal” Smith Alan Strange ***…

San Francisco police are asking for help in finding individuals responsible for hanging spiked baseball bats from poles throughout the city. San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Andraychak says officers first received reports of wooden or metal baseball bats hanging by chains from utility poles and parking meters in the city on Thanksgiving morning. Andraychak says 27 bats with spikes driven through them have been found since then. The latest discovery…

.@SFPD now says 27 bats some w/nails found around the city. Another found this morning at 9a. #abc7news pic.twitter.com/YMH4TPE3Nm — Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) November 27, 2015 Those creepy spiked baseball bats that appeared across San Francisco Thursday were apparently not a Thanksgiving Day prank, as even more appeared as of Friday morning, police say — but they still have no idea WTF they’re supposed to communicate. As previously reported, officers…

   BOCA CHICA, Dominican Republic – – After a week filled with five games and numerous community involvement activities, the Ball State baseball team closed out its final day in the Dominican Republic by holding a baseball clinic for local youth Sunday morning. The team also provided lunch for the participants who attended the clinic, then began the 12-hour journey back to Muncie, Ind. Coach Maloney’s Sunday Blog Post:…

2. San Francisco police have been left stumped by almost 30 baseball bats fitted with large spike made out of screws that have been left chained to poles in recent days. Police began discovering the bats on Thursday, Thanksgiving morning, with at least 27 discovered by late Friday, Sgt. Michael Andraychak told the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. The bats have been found chained to light poles and parking meters, Andraychak…

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The New York Times posted an intriguing feature Saturday about the efforts of longtime minor-league baseball executive Lou Schwechheimer to bring minor league baseball back to Cuba. Not since the middle of the 1960 season, in the early months of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary administration, had Cuba been connected officially to Major League Baseball. A year before in 1959, the Havana Sugar Kings won the International League as the Triple-A affiliate…

San Francisco police have found more than two-dozen bats chained to street poles across the city. Some of the bats have nails sticking out of them. Denise Chew stepped out of an optometrist office on Mission Street near Rolph Street where a bat was found chained to a parking meter. “This is really odd. I’m kind of speechless about it,” said Chew. “It’s pretty bizarre and it’s weird that there’s…

0 Shares print Mike Veeck has been called the funniest man in baseball. When Veeck — along with actor/comedian Bill Murray and lawyer Marv Goldklang — started the independent minor league St. Paul Saints in the then-Northern League (now the American Association) in 1993, it looked as if the joke might be on them. Independent baseball was all but extinct, and few thought their plan would work. It not only…

A few years ago, we were visiting our daughter and son-in-law for our grandson Luke’s second birthday. It was the time year when all the Major League Baseball teams were announcing their new signings and the amounts the players were being paid. My son-in-law picked up Luke and said, “Maybe we should take him to the backyard and teach him to play baseball.” Advertisement His big sister, Peyton, 3½ at…

CSN Mid-Atlantic’s Rich Dubroff reports that the Orioles are “searching everywhere” for outfield help. The club recently acquired L.J. Hoes from the Astros in exchange for cash considerations, throwing him into a stable of six outfielders that could potentially crack the Opening Day Roster. Adam Jones, of course, will open the season in center field. But in the corner outfield and on the bench, Dubroff lists Hoes along with Dariel…

PLAIN CITY, Ohio – John and Sandy Li have a lot to be thankful this Thanksgiving. When their son took his life earlier this year, they had no idea how a stranger would change their life. Their son Blake was 17-years-old. He was a catcher for Jonathan Alder High School, a baseball powerhouse winning five straight district titles. “He loved baseball”, Sandy said. He attended a baseball camp at…

Police were investigating why a set of baseball bats were chained to telephone poles around San Francisco on Thursday, police said. As many of 15 of the bats, some of which had nails protruding from them, were found in a number of locations around the city, Sgt. Michael Andraychak said. The bats were discovered throughout Thursday, beginning in the morning. The last one was found at around 4:45 p.m. at 19th…

Playing college baseball was a high point for me after leaving high school. A local junior college, somehow in their great wisdom, gave me an opportunity to play and I was grateful. I was not short on confidence or desire, but I was, sadly, short on skill. But I learned many lessons over the next four years of college baseball that helped me later in life. Lesson No. 1: To…