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Baseball world still buzzing about Noah Syndergaard’s brushback pitch to … – FOXSports.com

Sunday, November 01, 2015

NEW YORK — Somewhere in the past few decades, pitching high and inside has become an offense, a violation of baseball etiquette if not the rules. Batters with multimillion-dollar contracts go ballistic when a cowhide-covered sphere of roughly 5 ounces and 9-inch circumference whizzes by their whiskers, even if they get up unscathed. So when the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard opened Game 3 of the World Series with a 97-mph pitch above…

Baseball world still buzzing about Noah Syndergaard’s brushback pitch to … – FOXSports.com

Sunday, November 01, 2015

NEW YORK — Somewhere in the past few decades, pitching high and inside has become an offense, a violation of baseball etiquette if not the rules. Batters with multimillion-dollar contracts go ballistic when a cowhide-covered sphere of roughly 5 ounces and 9-inch circumference whizzes by their whiskers, even if they get up unscathed. So when the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard opened Game 3 of the World Series with a 97-mph pitch above…

U.S., Cuba in trade talks — about baseball players – The Seattle Times

Sunday, November 01, 2015

WASHINGTON — Getting from Cuba to the big leagues has never just been about 450-foot home runs and 100-mph fastballs. When New York Mets’ slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes decided in 2011 that he wanted to leave his country to play baseball in the United States, he did what dozens of Cuban baseball players have done since the Castro government came to power more than 50 years ago. Risking arrest and…

LOOK: 2015 baseball player Halloween costume mega-bonanza – CBSSports.com

Sunday, November 01, 2015

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Inside Baseball: Personality clash led to Anthopoulos’ gutsy call; more notes – CBSSports.com

Sunday, November 01, 2015

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Redemption for Captain Wright and His Crew – New York Times

Saturday, October 31, 2015

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The Unknown Caribbean Island Breeding Baseball Stars – Daily Beast

Saturday, October 31, 2015

AMSTERDAM — There was no joy in Mudville. Coach Loek Loevendie pointed to the rain washing over the fields surrounding the Amsterdam Pirates’ Baseball Café. “On a day like this,” he said, “there is nothing much you can do. But we’re very strong players…” And somehow that made things worse. The pride of Dutch baseball had failed, this year, to make it into the World Series. No, there was not a…

Why Using the Football Coverage Blueprint Doesn’t Work for Postseason Baseball – The Big Lead

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Regular season baseball is not football. It is not subject to seismic narrative shifts on a game-by-game basis. Postseason baseball, however, transforms to resemble the sport which supplanted it as America’s pastime. The equilibrium of a six-month, 162-game season gives way to a topography full of peaks and valleys. When baseball comes to the forefront of sports-talk discussion every October, the conversation is full of voices that, whether intentional or…

Why Using the Football Coverage Blueprint Doesn’t Work for Postseason Baseball – The Big Lead

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Regular season baseball is not football. It is not subject to seismic narrative shifts on a game-by-game basis. Postseason baseball, however, transforms to resemble the sport which supplanted it as America’s pastime. The equilibrium of a six-month, 162-game season gives way to a topography full of peaks and valleys. When baseball comes to the forefront of sports-talk discussion every October, the conversation is full of voices that, whether intentional or…

Baseball, the Grinch That Stole Halloween – Wall Street Journal

Saturday, October 31, 2015

ENLARGE Kansas City, Mo. On Wednesday night, John Nguyen packed four kids into the car and drove downtown to a haunted house called Edge of Hell. Visiting this scare-inducing haunt—a Kansas City landmark since 1975—is a Halloween tradition for Nguyen, who was prepared to drop $130 on tickets. But to his dismay, the Edge of Hell on Wednesday evening was closed—a casualty of World Series Game 2 between the Kansas…

Why Using the Football Coverage Blueprint Doesn’t Work for Postseason Baseball – The Big Lead

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Regular season baseball is not football. It is not subject to seismic narrative shifts on a game-by-game basis. Postseason baseball, however, transforms to resemble the sport which supplanted it as America’s pastime. The equilibrium of a six-month, 162-game season gives way to a topography full of peaks and valleys. When baseball comes to the forefront of sports-talk discussion every October, the conversation is full of voices that, whether intentional or…

Discovering America’s history through baseball – Fox News

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Negro League Baseball Museum, Kansas City. (Missouri Division of Tourism) They were among the best baseball players in the United States, traveling cross-country to play the game they loved before cheering fans. But they were often forced to sleep on their bus and eat peanut butter crackers. “They could fill up the ballpark but couldn’t get a meal or a place to stay from the same fans that had just cheered…

Inflation Hits Venezuelans Where It Hurts: Baseball Parks – Voice of America

Saturday, October 31, 2015

CARACAS, VENEZUELA— Venezuela’s raucous, boozy and affordable baseball games have long provided respite from the growing gloom in the economically struggling country. Now, a more than quadrupling of ticket prices is putting a damper on the national pastime, with the season kicking off this month to sometimes half-empty stadiums and featuring players who say their per diems don’t go far enough to buy lunch. On…

USC Baseball To Hold Benefit Scrimmage In Lexington – WLTX.com

Saturday, October 31, 2015

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Why Using the Football Coverage Blueprint Doesn’t Work for Postseason Baseball – The Big Lead

Friday, October 30, 2015

Regular season baseball is not football. It is not subject to seismic narrative shifts on a game-by-game basis. Postseason baseball, however, transforms to resemble the sport which supplanted it as America’s pastime. The equilibrium of a six-month, 162-game season gives way to a topography full of peaks and valleys. When baseball comes to the forefront of sports-talk discussion every October the conversation is full of voices that, whether intentional or…

Baseball blues in Venezuela as economic chaos hits stadiums – U.S. News & World Report

Friday, October 30, 2015

By HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s raucous, boozy and affordable baseball games have long provided respite from the growing gloom in the economically struggling country. Now, a more than quadrupling of ticket prices is putting a damper on the national pastime, with the season kicking off this month to sometimes half-empty stadiums and featuring players who say their per diems don’t go far enough to buy…

Inside Baseball: What Mets need to do to win World Series; more MLB notes – CBSSports.com

Thursday, October 29, 2015

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The Lure of Baseball in the Dominican Republic – New York Times

Thursday, October 29, 2015

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