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San Francisco police are trying to figure out who’s responsible for chaining baseball bats to street poles across the city. Police in the Parkside neighborhood found one of those bats. It’s a scene that was repeated more than a dozen times Thursday. In some cases, the bats also had nails protruding from them. The bat at the Parkside location looked like a pipe bomb. Officers cleared the area and brought…

View gallery . (Dave Reginek/Getty Images) The holidays are upon us. On Thanksgiving, we here at The Stew have a lot to be thankful for. While baseball isn’t currently on television, the game appears to be stronger than ever. The rookie class was fantastic, Clayton Kershaw struck out 300 hitters and the Chicago Cubs are actually contenders again. This being The Stew, though, we decided to take a different route…

View gallery . (Dave Reginek/Getty Images) The holidays are upon us. On Thanksgiving, we here at The Stew have a lot to be thankful for. While baseball isn’t currently on television, the game appears to be stronger than ever. The rookie class was fantastic, Clayton Kershaw struck out 300 hitters and the Chicago Cubs are actually contenders again. This being The Stew, though, we decided to take a different route…

View gallery . (Dave Reginek/Getty Images) The holidays are upon us. On Thanksgiving, we here at The Stew have a lot to be thankful for. While baseball isn’t currently on television, the game appears to be stronger than ever. The rookie class was fantastic, Clayton Kershaw struck out 300 hitters and the Chicago Cubs are actually contenders again. This being The Stew, though, we decided to take a different route…

View gallery . (Dave Reginek/Getty Images) The holidays are upon us. On Thanksgiving, we here at The Stew have a lot to be thankful for. While baseball isn’t currently on television, the game appears to be stronger than ever. The rookie class was fantastic, Clayton Kershaw struck out 300 hitters and the Chicago Cubs are actually contenders again. This being The Stew, though, we decided to take a different route…

Thanksgiving! ‘Tis a time of gratitude for home, hearth, family, and nourishment! Those are the important things on this fine and bloated Thursday, but let us also be thankful for the sport that binds us. That would be baseball, of course. It’s one thing to give thanks for baseball as a general source of uplift and betterment, which I’m quite sure all us do without ceasing. It’s another thing to…

View photo . Find out how Bryce Harper can bring the family together for a special activity. (AP) It’s that time of year again: Thanksgiving! The meaning of Thanksgiving is self-explanatory. It’s a day to celebrate all that we’re thankful for in life, with the added perks of gathering with friends and family to share laughs, eat turkey sandwiches and watch wall-to-wall football coverage. All of that sounds perfect, unless…

The baseball careers of sibling Jupiter High School students Brandyn and Tyler Ward have been figuratively heading north for the past several years — all as they literally moved further south. Brandyn, a 6-foot-4, 218-pound senior outfielder for the Warriors, and Tyler, a 6-foot-3, 189-pound junior first baseman, were born in Chicago. Both then took a circuitous route with their parents toward Gainesville, then Jupiter. “I work in medical device…

South Lyon native Ryan Marken will be the new baseball coach at Spring Arbor University in 2017.(Photo: SPRING ARBOR ATHLETICS) When Spring Arbor University baseball coach Sam Riggleman retires following the 2016 season, a familiar face, Ryan Marken, will step in to grab the reigns of the program. “We are thrilled that Ryan has accepted the invitation to be the next baseball coach at Spring Arbor University,” Spring Arbor athletic…

View gallery . (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) Major League Baseball teams will be spending this holiday season just like you: Searching for the cheapest deals and the best bargains. That’s right, free agency is upon us, and not every team can afford to throw around money like the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Some clubs have real payroll concerns and can’t go out and spend millions of dollars on multiple players. Those teams…

Buy Photo Indian River’s Ryan Engh signed his national letter of intent to play baseball at High Point University.(Photo: Staff photo by Ryan Marshall)Buy Photo Ryan Engh is a baseball player. The way the Indian River senior talks, walks and presents himself, it’s pretty clear. Baseball is the life for Engh. Whether it is 100 degrees or snowing, Engh is working on his game, his parents, Andy and Natalie said. Playing…

View photo . Josh Donaldson has emerged as one of the new faces of baseball. (Getty Images) When Josh Donaldson was traded from Oakland to Toronto in November 2014, he knew there was the potential for him and the Blue Jays to achieve greatness. With quality bats like Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Russell Martin already in Toronto’s lineup, qualifying for the postseason was a realistic goal. Donaldson also felt…

Nov. 25, 2015 Box Score Box Score | Box Score | Photo Gallery Courtesy John Curley Center for Sports Journalism HAVANA – Penn State baseball continued its educational slate in Cuba Tuesday and returned to the diamond Wednesday. However, the defending Cuban National Series champion, Ciego de Ávila, was able to hold Penn State scoreless in a 2-0 victory in the second game of the Cuba Baseball Friendship Tournament in Latin…

UGA baseball coach Scott Stricklin announced 14 signees for next season on Wednesday. The 2016 class consists of 12 high school players and two junior college players. The Bulldogs should be happy with their class, which is ranked No. 14 in the Top 25 College Recruiting Rankings by “Perfect Game.” “We are very excited to welcome this special group to the University of Georgia,” Stricklin said Wednesday. “This is a very deep…

Buy Photo Indian River’s Ryan Engh signed his national letter of intent to play baseball at High Point University.(Photo: Staff photo by Ryan Marshall)Buy Photo Ryan Engh is a baseball player. The way the Indian River senior talks, walks and presents himself, it’s pretty clear. Baseball is the life for Engh. Whether it is 100 degrees or snowing, Engh is working on his game, his parents, Andy and Natalie said. Playing…

Buy Photo Indian River’s Ryan Engh signed his national letter of intent to play baseball at High Point University.(Photo: Staff photo by Ryan Marshall)Buy Photo Ryan Engh is a baseball player. The way the Indian River senior talks, walks and presents himself, it’s pretty clear. Baseball is the life for Engh. Whether it is 100 degrees or snowing, Engh is working on his game, his parents, Andy and Natalie said. Playing…

A Los Angeles Dodgers official was overheard to say at the recent owners meeting in Dallas that they’d like to move their payroll to $200 million from a record $300 million, and co-owner Todd Boehly told the Los Angeles Times that they’d like to get it “much closer to $200 million” than $300 million. Whichever it may be, it won’t be easy. Not this year, anyway. The Dodgers appear to…

The Clippers and Cleveland Indians will announce a two-year extension of their player development agreement today that will keep the Tribe at Huntington Park through the 2018 season. The Indians moved their triple-A operation to Columbus in 2009 to coincide with the opening of Huntington Park. The baseball marriage has been a piece of baseball heaven for both organizations. The Clippers have drawn 4,388,734 fans over the past seven seasons…

View gallery . (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) Major League Baseball teams will be spending this holiday season just like you: Searching for the cheapest deals and the best bargains. That’s right, free agency is upon us, and not every team can afford to throw around money like the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Some clubs have real payroll concerns and can’t go out and spend millions of dollars on multiple players. Those teams…

View gallery . (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) Major League Baseball teams will be spending this holiday season just like you: Searching for the cheapest deals and the best bargains. That’s right, free agency is upon us, and not every team can afford to throw around money like the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Some clubs have real payroll concerns and can’t go out and spend millions of dollars on multiple players. Those teams…