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Yoenis Cespedes: Baseball’s Most Improbable Golf Prodigy – Wall Street Journal

Thursday, October 29, 2015

ENLARGE When Yoenis Cespedes shows up for work, New York Mets hitting coach Kevin Long greets him with an odd question. Long is not so meddlesome as to ask him how he slept or what he ate for breakfast. But there is one thing Long wants to know about how Cespedes spent his morning: Did he play golf? “If he played golf,” Long said, “most of the time he hits…

Kansas City is the best baseball town in America right now – For The Win

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Anyone who tells you baseball is dying hasn’t spent much time in Kansas City lately. Obviously, the Royals are in the World Series for the second straight year, and some portion of every city would embrace a baseball team in that spot. But what’s incredible, from an empirical standpoint, at least, is how widespread and unifying this town’s love for the Royals appears to be: The…

Major League Baseball’s pace of play not ideal for the casual fan – The Denver Post

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

For the same reason that many fans loved the Royals’ thrilling 5-4, 14-inning win in Game 1 of the World Series Monday night, others were turned away. It’s America, everybody is going to have different tastes. A passion for baseball is sort of like a passion for coffee, you are either going to love it or hate it. On a night where MLB’s opening game of its championship series went…

The Sublime Simplicity of Baseball-Reference.com – RollingStone.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Not long ago, a mild-mannered former mathematics professor named Sean Forman met Cal Ripken at a Baseball Hall of Fame gathering. This is the sort of thing that Forman could never have imagined he’d be doing 16 years ago, before he created a website, Baseball-Reference.com, that completely altered the way Internet-savvy fans consume the sport. In fact, this is the sort of thing that still blows Forman’s mind, especially when…

Inside Baseball: Humble Moore takes unusual route to become top GM – CBSSports.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Brad Bohannon hired as first Auburn baseball assistant – Montgomery Advertiser

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Kentucky assistant coach Brad Bohannon accepted an offer to join Butch Thompson’s staff at Auburn. (Photo: Chet White | UK Athletics) AUBURN — The two national assistant coaches of the year will be in the same Auburn dugout for the 2016 season. Auburn head coach Butch Thompson announced the first member of his staff Tuesday afternoon with the hiring of Kentucky assistant coach Brad Bohannon. Bohannon won the 2015 Baseball America…

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum a must-see for baseball history fans – CBSSports.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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The Fastest Pitchers in Baseball – New York Times

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Yu Darvish’s brother arrested for allegedly taking bets on baseball games … – Washington Post

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Epic World Series opener on historic date – The Boston Globe

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No sports institution values history, and gets stuck in history, like Major League Baseball. And you never know when history will be made. Continue reading below Let’s take the opening game of the 2015 World Series on Tuesday night, for example. The 5-4 Royals win in 14 innings — tied for the longest game in Series history — was heartfelt and historic. One for the ages….

Mets, Unlike Royals, Have Yet to Join Baseball’s Bronze Age – New York Times

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Baseball|The Fastest Pitchers in Baseball – New York Times

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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With Managers, Major League Baseball Is Forward in Thinking but Backward in Hiring – New York Times

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Baseball Season’s Late Ending Is Better Than an Early Start, Commissioner Rob … – New York Times

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Mets manager Terry Collins, a baseball lifer, gets his shot at World Series – USA TODAY

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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25 Baseball Movie Quotes to Get You Pumped Up for the World Series – E! Online

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Orion Pictures If Joseph Gordon-Levitt flapping his wings in Angels in the Outfield was a movie quote, you better believe it would make this list. (So, spoiler alert, it doesn’t.) Tomorrow night the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals go head-to-head in the first game of the 2015 World Series. Even if your team didn’t make it (you had a lot of Back to the Future enthusiasts behind…

Baseball fan to receive Daniel Murphy signed bat despite mixup – Chicago Sun-Times

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

A Mets fan thought he bought a bat similar to the one Daniel Murphy used to break the consecutive games with a home run record in the MLB playoffs only to be told that it was “out of stock.” Will Smith ordered a signed Murphy bat for $175 off the Topps website for his 12th birthday in November. However, things changed when Murphy broke the MLB record with home runs…

Baseball currently has no black managers. Rob Manfred is concerned. – Washington Post

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Rob Manfred, commissioner of baseball, before Game 4 of baseball’s American League Championship Series on Oct. 20. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) KANSAS CITY – Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday his league is making efforts to foster diversity among managers and executives even as the hiring processes of the 30 major league clubs have led to a landscape in which only one current manager isn’t white. Manfred, speaking at Kauffman Stadium…

New Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais ready to ‘bring playoff baseball … – The Seattle Times

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

He’s big on youth and collaboration, has hopped on the movement to harness advanced statistics in baseball scouting and is eager to bring about a cultural revolution within the Seattle Mariners organization. It’s no wonder that new manager Scott Servais gets along with his new boss, general manger Jerry Dipoto, whom he’s known since their playing days with the Colorado Rockies in 2000. Servais, 48, was introduced as the Mariners’…