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In Baseball, the Times Are Changing – New York Times
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Fantasy baseball advice for your Week 21 lineups — Monday, 11 am ET – USA TODAY
(Troy Taormina, USA TODAY Sports) If you’re going to make a bid for a championship, you need every member of your team to produce when it’s time. Fantasy owners with a shot at a title have to make sure they’re getting the most out of their roster. That means getting rid of dead weight and concentrating on the areas where you need to improve. As you prepare for the stretch run, Steve…
A Blue Jay flies down the Dominican Republic for a baseball and life experience – DesMoinesRegister.com
Four players from Iowa were among those going to the Dominican Republic to play baseball.(Photo: Submitted photo) Between the end of the baseball substate-final game and the start of the football season just days away, Bondurant-Farrar incoming junior Casey Zarr found time to take a trip to Santiago, Dominican Republic through the Caliendo Sports USA baseball team Zarr and 15 other high school ballplayers from around the nation spent Aug….
A Potential Baseball Powerhouse Blossoms in Uganda – VICE
“Eventually, Uganda will long surpass the Dominican Republic as far as number and quality of [baseball] players.” The person who said this out loud, and truly believes it, is an intelligent and reasonable man with a more than basic understanding of baseball, even though his quote suggests otherwise. Richard Stanley, a Brooklyn native who worked as a chemical engineer for Proctor & Gamble for 22 years, is part owner of…
Daily Fantasy Baseball 2015: MLB DraftKings Bargain Buys, Sleepers for August 23 – Bleacher Report
Welcome back to yet another edition of Sunday Funday with daily fantasy baseball still in full swing. The playoffs are fast approaching, but the pennant races haven’t slowed down. This, of course, means there is still plenty of opportunities to earn wads of cash on DraftKings. But before any lineups are locked in, take a look at these bargains and sleepers for the August 23 slate of games. …
Mets play shortest baseball games in major leagues – New York Post
The Mets finally have a winning season — but fans have less time to enjoy it. The Kings of Queens play the fastest games in the Major Leagues, averaging just two hours and 46 minutes for a nine-inning game this season. That’s 15 minutes shorter than last year’s average, according to data from Major League Baseball, which credits the drop to new rules introduced to speed up games. Better pitching…
On Baseball: Looking over Dombrowski’s to-do list – Press Herald
Dave Dombrowski was given a chance to take over after the season. But Dombrowski, 59, the new president of baseball operations for the Boston Red Sox, wanted to begin work right away. Of course, he’s got a lot to do. Here’s a peek at Dombrowski’s to-do list: • Pull out an ace. In his news conference Wednesday, Dombrowski pointed out the need to improve Boston’s pitching, adding, “Ideally you want a top-of-the-rotation…
Fantasy Baseball Week 20 Waiver Wire Report – Athletics Nation
Week 20 of the Fantasy Baseball season is here. For many this is the last week before the playoffs begin and of course the last week to get into the playoffs if your roster is on the bubble. We have much to discuss this week so let’s get after it! Week 20 Interleague Matchups Cleveland Indians at Chicago Cubs (1 game, Monday) Detroit Tigers at Cincinnati Reds…
Today in History: Pete Rose gets booted from baseball – AOL News
One look at the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame features a glaring omission: the MLB’s hit king. Of course, that’s Pete Rose, who will never be allowed election into the hall. Rose famously denied his involvement in betting on baseball for decades before coming forward with his admission in a book in 2004. On this day in 1989, then-MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti handed Rose permanent placement on the league’s ineligible…
David Denson, pro baseball’s first openly gay player, has help on his journey – Los Angeles Times
Billy Bean knows how painful it can be to keep a secret. Twenty years ago he was an outfielder with the San Diego Padres. That part everybody knew. But what almost nobody knew, not even his mother, was that he was gay. There had never been an openly gay male in a major professional team sport in the U.S. And no one knew whether a gay athlete would be accepted…
A Gay Baseball Player, in Statistical Perspective – New York Times
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Inside Baseball: More GMs and managers on the hot seat; plus notes – CBSSports.com
Eight general managers have been fired, released or vacated their positions within the past 15 months, and the likelihood is that one or two more will go before the year’s up. Many of the departed executives were seemingly doing well, too. One was in the middle of a positive, productive rebuild, another won 98 games last year and another made the playoffs five times in eight years. Yet another of…
David Denson, Gay Baseball Prospect, Achieves a Key Victory: Being Himself – New York Times
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Baseball’s Last Cuban Escapees – New York Times
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They’re baseball crazy in Korea – NBCSports.com
Korean baseball has been on the rise for years. Even with recent gambling scandals, it has surged to the top of Korean sports fans’ list and is the most-watched sport in the country. Today there’s a good story in the Christian Science Monitor exploring the popularity of the KBO: Cho cites two factors behind his judgment: One is that Korean parks hold no more than about 30,000 seats, so everyone…
Baseball the constant throughout Dave Dombrowski’s life – Boston Globe
New Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski knew back in college that he wanted to work in the front office of a baseball organization. Dombrowski grew up in Illinois and he attended Richards High School in Oak Lawn. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Cornell, where he played first base on the baseball team and defensive tackle on the football team as a freshman. He later transferred to Western…
Explorers find over $1 million in baseball cards in Detroit warehouse – SI.com
An abandoned warehouse in Detroit has turned into a treasure trove for a group of urban explorers after they discovered crates filled with untouched sports cards. The Daily Mail reports that the entire collection of cards from the MLB, NHL and NASCAR could be worth over $1 million. One of the explorers, who identified himself as Slanks, claims that selling valuable cards he finds in the boxes is his primary…
David Denson, Baseball Prospect, Achieves a Key Victory: Being Himself – New York Times
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Baseball’s Last Cuban Escapees – New York Times
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Baseball’s Most Unfortunate Feat – Wall Street Journal
ENLARGE Winning 20 games is an uncommon achievement these days in baseball, what with pitchers being tied to tight pitch counts. But Aaron Harang of the Philadelphia Phillies has a shot at an even tougher feat: losing 20. Losing 20 games requires a lot to go right. (And, of course, wrong.) Besides typically needing to be on a miserable team, the pitcher needs to be healthy enough to get a…
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