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'I miss baseball every day': What a Nolan Arenado game day looks like with MLB on hold
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Tuesday, 21 April 2020 18:42
With on-field sports in the U.S. still on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is waiting for Major League Baseball to return to action. But as hard as that wait might be for fans on the outside looking in, imagine being a ballplayer whose mission, every day for eight or nine months every year, is to be ready to play…
Indians to pay full-time employees through June
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Sunday, 26 April 2020 17:26
The Cleveland Indians will pay regular salaries to full-time employees through June 30, but the club has had to furlough others due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The team said senior executives took "voluntary salary reductions'' to ensure the team could continue to pay staffers. The Indians confirmed they have furloughed "many of our part-time employees and interns.'' Those will take effect…
Olney: This isn't the time for MLB, union to be bickering over money
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Saturday, 25 April 2020 16:38
Baseball, at this moment, is like the craft of Apollo 13. Badly damaged, drifting, its original mission obsolete; the great plans for what was supposed to be have been scrapped. The question now is whether it can return, through collaboration and imagination.For Apollo 13, a fight among the astronauts about who got to sit in the middle seat, or who…
Why trying to defend Wade Boggs was pretty much impossible
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Sunday, 26 April 2020 06:36
You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we'll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history.ON THIS DATE IN 1982, Wade Boggs got his first hit in the major leagues.There would be 3,009 more hits for Boggs in his Hall of Fame career. And No. 3,000…
Dodgers legend Scully home from hospital
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Saturday, 25 April 2020 19:29
LOS ANGELES -- Retired Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is back home after falling and being hospitalized.The team quoted Scully on Twitter on Saturday, saying, "I'm home and resting comfortably with my wife and we are both eagerly awaiting the Time for Dodger Baseball!" That's a phrase announced before the start of every Dodgers home game.The 92-year-old fell Tuesday…
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Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:44
MLB official testifies in ump's discrimination suit
Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:56
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Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:59
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Friday, 24 April 2020 14:44
Cape Cod Baseball League cancels 2020 season
Friday, 24 April 2020 16:12
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Friday, 24 April 2020 10:46
Nats' Rizzo believes baseball returns this season
Friday, 24 April 2020 10:29
Dalkowski, 'fastest pitcher in history,' dies at 80
Friday, 24 April 2020 06:36
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Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:25
'Wherever they want to play, I'll play': Phillies ace Aaron Nola on MLB shutdown life, baseball's return and more
Thursday, 23 April 2020 11:48
MLB The Show League playoffs to be broadcast
Thursday, 23 April 2020 06:13
It was impossible -- in real life and the movies -- to hit a Hoyt Wilhelm knuckleball
Thursday, 23 April 2020 10:34
HOF broadcaster Scully hospitalized after fall
Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:20
Why the four-man outfield could be MLB's next big innovation
Friday, 07 February 2020 10:49
Did Red Sox get off easy? Will Cora return to Boston? Answering sign-stealing punishment questions
Wednesday, 22 April 2020 14:31
Sources: Red Sox shed Roenicke's 'interim' tag
Wednesday, 22 April 2020 13:06
Red Sox stripped of pick; Cora, staffer suspended
Wednesday, 22 April 2020 06:03
World Series, scooter rides and an $89 suit: The tales of Terry Francona
Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:28
Kiley McDaniel's guide to MLB rookie and prospect pitchers for fantasy value
Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:51
Reports: A-Rod, J-Lo retain bank, eye Mets bid
Tuesday, 21 April 2020 05:53