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See more of the story In 1966, The Standells released a single titled “Dirty Water,” about Boston’s filthy harbor. The song became the city’s sports anthem and foreshadowed decades of Massachusetts malfeasance. The Boston sports mascot should be Whitey Bulger. Bill Belichick has defied or bent NFL rules, and last week the New York Times reported that the Boston Red Sox used Apple watches and television broadcasts — maybe the…

  In 1966, The Standells released a single titled “Dirty Water,” about Boston’s filthy harbor. The song became the city’s sports anthem and foreshadowed decades of Massachusetts malfeasance. The Boston sports mascot should be Whitey Bulger. Bill Belichick has defied or bent NFL rules, and last week the New York Times reported that the Boston Red Sox used Apple watches and television broadcasts — maybe the “Seinfeld” season during which…

See more of the story In 1966, The Standells released a single titled “Dirty Water,” about Boston’s filthy harbor. The song became the city’s sports anthem and foreshadowed decades of Massachusetts malfeasance. The Boston sports mascot should be Whitey Bulger. Bill Belichick has defied or bent NFL rules, and last week the New York Times reported that the Boston Red Sox used Apple watches and television broadcasts — maybe the…

Baseball America, the foremost authority on prospect coverage, named Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna its 2017 Minor League Player of the Year on Friday. Acuna, 19, was signed for a mere $100,000 out of Venezuela back in 2014. He led the minors with 181 hits this season and hit .325/.374/.522 with 31 doubles, 21 home runs, and 44 steals in 139 games at three different levels. Most impressively, Acuna performed even better…

Konnect Agency This fall baseball icon and World Series champion Alex Rodriguez is diving into the Shark Tank — ABC’s hit business reality show. This fall baseball icon Alex Rodriguez is diving into the Shark Tank — ABC’s hit business reality show. “I’m very proud that I’m the first Hispanic shark,” said the former Yankees slugger, known as A-Rod. “I’m the first athlete shark, which is kind of cool.” What’s…

Konnect Agency This fall baseball icon and World Series champion Alex Rodriguez is diving into the Shark Tank — ABC’s hit business reality show. This fall baseball icon Alex Rodriguez is diving into the Shark Tank — ABC’s hit business reality show. “I’m very proud that I’m the first Hispanic shark,” said the former Yankees slugger, known as A-Rod. “I’m the first athlete shark, which is kind of cool.” What’s…

Baseball America, the foremost authority on prospect coverage, named Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna its 2017 Minor League Player of the Year on Friday. Acuna, 19, was signed for a mere $100,000 out of Venezuela back in 2014. He led the minors with 181 hits this season and hit .325/.374/.522 with 31 doubles, 21 home runs, and 44 steals in 139 games at three different levels. Most impressively, Acuna performed even better…

Konnect Agency This fall baseball icon and World Series champion Alex Rodriguez is diving into the Shark Tank — ABC’s hit business reality show. This fall baseball icon Alex Rodriguez is diving into the Shark Tank — ABC’s hit business reality show. “I’m very proud that I’m the first Hispanic shark,” said the former Yankees slugger, known as A-Rod. “I’m the first athlete shark, which is kind of cool.” What’s…

New York Mets mascot Mr. Met plays to the crowd during the team’s 2005 home opener at Shea Stadium. (Gregory Bull/AP) On June 28, 1871, the Philadelphia Athletics — not, incidentally, the team that later became the Kansas City Athletics and then the Oakland Athletics — traveled to Troy, N.Y., to play the Troy Haymakers in a game of “base-ball.” It was the first season in which a professional league…

Welcome back to another installment of “If the First Half Didn’t Exist,” an annual tradition that serves two purposes. The first is to remind you that we pay far, far too much attention to everything that happens in the first half of the season. The other is to acknowledge that we might not pay enough attention to what’s been happening in the second half of the season. The first half…

Photo by Topps, Inc. 1968 Topps Johnny Bench These days a 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card in good condition will set you back about $690,000. A near mint 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle can be yours for about $145,000. Of course, very few collectors or investors are players at these prices. So I asked Jonathan Celona, co-owner of the Boston-based Champions Sports Cards and Collectibles, to recommend five fun and affordable…

Welcome back to another installment of “If the First Half Didn’t Exist,” an annual tradition that serves two purposes. The first is to remind you that we pay far, far too much attention to everything that happens in the first half of the season. The other is to acknowledge that we might not pay enough attention to what’s been happening in the second half of the season. The first half…

HARI SREENIVASAN: Baseball has a history of teams trying to gain advantage against a pitcher by occasionally stealing signs from the team it’s playing. The idea is to relay information to the hitter about what kind of pitch he will face. There are ways to do it that are acceptable. But the Boston Red Sox are accused of going too far with it last month against their rivals, the New…

Yan Gomes had plenty of hands to slap after hitting a three-run homer Tuesday – the Indians are playing with a 36-man active roster.(Photo: Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images) It is the most asinine rule in all of sports. It’s ruining the fairness of baseball’s playoff races, turning fans and viewing audiences away from the game, and leaving Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred stuck watching four-hour contests. MLB’s archaic September…

More than a half-dozen professional baseball players with ties to St. Johns County finished the minor league baseball season this week. While no one from the county appeared in a major league game this summer, the local athletes ranged all the way from rookie leagues to Triple-A. Here is a rundown of their seasons: High Schools Ricky Karcher (Reds): 7 appearances, 4 starts, 0-3 record, 10.67 ERA, 14.1 innings, 14…

HARI SREENIVASAN: Baseball has a history of teams trying to gain advantage against a pitcher by occasionally stealing signs from the team it’s playing. The idea is to relay information to the hitter about what kind of pitch he will face. There are ways to do it that are acceptable. But the Boston Red Sox are accused of going too far with it last month against their rivals, the New…

HARI SREENIVASAN: Baseball has a history of teams trying to gain advantage against a pitcher by occasionally stealing signs from the team it’s playing. The idea is to relay information to the hitter about what kind of pitch he will face. There are ways to do it that are acceptable. But the Boston Red Sox are accused of going too far with it last month against their rivals, the New…

The last thing panicking Dodger fans need to hear is that they’re wrong to feel that way. Fernando Rodney. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) The least helpful thing you can tell a long-suffering Dodgers fan, especially after a particularly painful loss like last night’s, is that they are some sort of sub-human fan for panicking, for expressing their fear either on social media, or for 30 seconds of booing while paying to…

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a baseball scout who had been watching the Los Angeles Dodgers quite a bit recently. This was before the Dodgers dropped 10 of 11 entering Wednesday, back when they were on pace to win 115 games. The scout was blown away. The Dodgers, he said, do so many things right each and every night to win games, and he…

Forget vacating victories, which is N.C.A.A. stuff. Every baseball game has a winner and a loser, in real time, period. If an electronic delivery system helped the Red Sox win a few more games because their hitters knew what pitches were coming, we can’t pretend it didn’t happen. It did, and they got away with it. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Naturally, the Yankees are upset about this, and…