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The tragic story of 9-year-old bat boy who died Sunday after he was accidentally hit in the head in Kansas caught the baseball community off guard. “Absolutely brutal,” said Mike Zirelli, a former assistant coach at Santa Clara University who managed the PUF Capitalists, a collegiate summer baseball program which played its home games at Palo Alto High. “I have an 8-year-old son myself and a 5-year-old son, and they…

Dave Dombrowski has a .468 winning percentage as a general manager. Basically, every team he’s put together has gone 76-86, adrift and out of contention, on average. Heck, even Ruben Amaro, Jr. has a career .510 winning percentage. And we’re supposed to believe that teams are so excited about Dombrowski that there’s a bidding war for his services? That there’s even a MYSTERY CLUB? Seems unlikely. Unless there’s more…

The security state has gone far enough. The hand of irrational fear has reached deep into the heart of America and has removed all that is good. It’s baseball, Ray, and I’m talking about metal detectors at Major League Baseball games. MLB has implemented a policy this season requiring that parks greet fans of the national pastime at the door with metal detectors. I know some of the seats are…

Knee injury KOs Yankees catcher McCann Brian McCann was out of the New York Yankees’ lineup Wednesday night, against Boston, because of a stiff left knee. The slugging catcher was injured blocking a pitch in the dirt from reliever Dellin Betances on Tuesday night — when McCann homered and drove in four runs. He shifted to first base late in the game. McCann said an MRI showed inflammation around a…

Taking one look at the overflow crowd at Springdale’s Michael J. Drotar Field for the Division I Little League game between Fairfield American and Stamford North and any concerns about the relationship between Stamford and the game of baseball should be clear. The love affair is still going strong and while suburban towns may be making gains at the high school level, summer baseball is still Stamford’s specialty. This year…

Dave Dombrowski has a .468 winning percentage as a general manager. Basically, every team he’s put together has gone 76-86, adrift and out of contention, on average. Heck, even Ruben Amaro, Jr. has a career .510 winning percentage. And we’re supposed to believe that teams are so excited about Dombrowski that there’s a bidding war for his services? That there’s even a MYSTERY CLUB? Seems unlikely. Unless there’s more…

It definitely ain’t over ‘til it’s over. The 116-win 2001 Seattle Mariners were one of the greatest teams, in any sport, to not win a championship. Led by Lou Piniella, the team was built for success: they boasted great pitching, an impeccable knack for getting on base (their .360 OBP was the highest in the majors), a historically good defense, and absolutely dominated the American League. Yet on Aug. 5,…

Jim McIsaac/Getty Images/File Unhealthy as it looks: David Ortiz spat out his “chew” after flying out against Tampa Bay in Game 3 of the 2008 ALCS at Fenway Park. Search the web for the phrase “tobacco and baseball” and you’ll find an association that dates back almost to the beginning of the sport. In the late 1800s, tobacco companies debuted baseball cards in cigarette packs. By the early 1900s, Bull…

The summer is in full swing, and many parents are looking for fun and exciting experiences to keep their kids engaged and entertained! Rollercoasters, amusement parks, water slides, and local festivals are the tried-and-true summer entertainment venues. And of course, let’s not forget there’s no shortage of Major League Baseball games to attend in the Midwest! Let me introduce you to the shining diamond of South Bend Indiana: Four Winds…

David Banks/Getty Images Playing in just his second career Major League game, Rays rookie Richie Shaffer hit his first home run. But it’s what happened when he got back to the dugout that’s so memorable. Shaffer’s teammates pulled a classic baseball prank, the silent treatment. That is, when a player hits a home run that is significant to their own career, the rest of the team ignores him and pretends…

The summer is in full swing, and many parents are looking for fun and exciting experiences to keep their kids engaged and entertained! Rollercoasters, amusement parks, water slides, and local festivals are the tried-and-true summer entertainment venues. And of course, let’s not forget there’s no shortage of Major League Baseball games to attend in the Midwest! Let me introduce you to the shining diamond of South Bend Indiana: Four Winds…

It definitely ain’t over ‘til it’s over. The 116-win 2001 Seattle Mariners were one of the greatest teams, in any sport, to not win a championship. Led by Lou Piniella, the team was built for success: they boasted great pitching, an impeccable knack for getting on base (their .360 OBP was the highest in the majors), a historically good defense, and absolutely dominated the American League. Yet on Aug. 5,…

Dave Dombrowski has a .468 winning percentage as a general manager. Basically, every team he’s put together has gone 76-86, adrift and out of contention, on average. Heck, even Ruben Amaro, Jr. has a career .510 winning percentage. And we’re supposed to believe that teams are so excited about Dombrowski that there’s a bidding war for his services? That there’s even a MYSTERY CLUB? Seems unlikely. Unless there’s more…

This is so sad. A nine-year-old baseball lover, Kaiser Carlile, was working as a bat boy for his local baseball team in Kansas when the worst kind of tragedy struck this past weekend. [ Related: Bobbi Kristina’s Funeral Was A Sad, Meaningful Event ] Kaiser was running to get a bat between pitches for his beloved Liberal Bee Jays when the next batter coming to the plate didn’t see him,…

Nelson Cruz ($6,200) @ Rockies There was nowhere else to start other than this gem from the Elias Sports Bureau on just how rare Nelson Cruz’s season has been: HR in 5 straight games 2x in season via ELIAS Harmon Killebrew (1970) Frank Thomas (1994) Barry Bonds (2001) Chase Utley (2008) Nelson Cruz — ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) August 5, 2015 Cruz is on a tear!…

WICHITA, Kan. – The word tragedy means an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress. There is no better word, sentence or phrase to sum up what happened to Kaiser Carlile. Chances are you have heard his story by now. Kaiser was the bat boy for the collegiate summer-league Liberal Bee Jays baseball team. As the Bee Jays were playing their opening game of the Championship Week of the National…

The last time Adam Niemeyer and five other Ohio State teammates saw Zach Farmer, the talk did not center on hospitals, leukemia, hair loss and chemotherapy treatments. It was a group of young men talking baseball, watching baseball and having that good-to-be-alive feeling on a Sunday afternoon in the living room of the Farmer’s home in Piketon, Ohio. “It was just a normal day,’’ said Niemeyer, a redshirt sophomore to…

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) announced a $600 million deal with the National Hockey League (NHL), which will give the baseball group the rights to hockey’s out-of-market TV broadcasting and Internet streaming. According to Variety, Major League Baseball’s tech branch will pay $100 million per year to the NHL for six years for the rights to distribute the NHL’s out-of-market games in US markets and in some…

E:60 correspondent Bob Woodruff stands behind Chris Singleton at the memorial to the Charleston shooting victims. | E:60 Among the nine victims of the devastating shooting at a Charleston church in June was Sharonda Coleman-Singleton. Coleman-Singleton, 45, was a pastor at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the mother of Chris Singleton, a baseball player at Charleston Southern University. Singleton is the focus of ESPN’s latest episode of “E:60,” airing Tuesday, Aug. 4….

It took a mere two months of summer baseball with the Liberal Bee Jays for 9-year-old Kaiser Carlile to wiggle his way deep into the hearts of the players and coaching staff. Maybe it was Kaiser’s constant smile despite the heat or a difficult game. Maybe it was his endless energy as he hopped over and under players on the team bus during road trips. “Kaiser will always hold a…