OAKHURST "Vintage Baseball," the baseball historian Russ McIver speaks about historic baseball.
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Welcome back to another This Particular Week In Baseball, the baseball column that baseballs your baseballs until you baseball all over your baseball.
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This baseball duffel bag shown (MSRP $99) is made from real baseball covering material — and includes real baseball stitching.
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The slow nature of baseball fosters the particularly literary quality of baseball writing and of baseball on the radio.
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Farmer really puts the "baseball" in "Modern Baseball," and throws the baseball perfectly into the glove of the Rays' catcher.
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If you don't like baseball, watch baseball, or know what baseball is, know this — the 2016 World Series is different.
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I'm talking baseball when I could be talking baseball delay.
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Rotisserie baseball -- what's now known as fantasy baseball -- was born.
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BASEBALL AMERICA 2016 PROSPECT HANDBOOK by John Manuel (Baseball America).
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"These guys have found that model for winning baseball — for October baseball — and it starts with playing that baseball in April," Hurdle said.
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Baseball David picking up his slingshot to take on Baseball Goliath.
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There's even a baseball autographed by American baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
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He had devoted his life to baseball; now, baseball was gone.
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It is the Baseball Assistance Team, not the Baseball Alumni Team.
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Baseball Reference and Baseball Prospectus have him as a close second.
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If a majority of people liked baseball, they didn't like baseball.
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Baseball season is fast approaching and with it, comes fantasy baseball.
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It's about a baseball player, but it's not about baseball, per se.
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Baseball plays are supposed to be taken care of by baseball plays.
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" Baseball fan Matt Birnbach wrote: "Jose was a reason you watched baseball.
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The Korean Baseball Organization is a very fun baseball league to watch.
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In 123, Baseball America ranked Pineda the 11th-best prospect in baseball.
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Following high school, baseball players can enter the Major League Baseball draft.
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Also, let minor league baseball continue to pay aspiring young baseball players.
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On Baseball The paradox of baseball economics has been obvious for years.
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Cuba's baseball federation and Major League Baseball announced an agreement on Dec.
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OMAHA — Trends in college baseball often trickle down from Major League Baseball.
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In baseball, we kind of got bought out by Major League Baseball.
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If you're a baseball fan, look into investing in rare baseball cards.
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On Baseball HOUSTON — No team in baseball slugs like the Houston Astros.
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"We've talked a lot about baseball and things beyond baseball," Sanchez said.
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With baseball season also comes baseball betting season — here are the odds.
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It's to put the best baseball players in a museum of baseball.
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Ms. Mills played numerous roles in the creation of "Baseball: The Early Years" (271), "Baseball: The Golden Age" (21990) and "Baseball: The People's Game" (21998).
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He joined the Rays in 2006 as coordinator of baseball operations, and other roles included director of baseball research and development, then director of baseball operations.
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Joe Torre, chief baseball officer for Major League Baseball, announced the disciplinary measures.
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I love getting old baseball cards and playing baseball trivia with my dad.
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That baseball I.Q., baseball clock — he just seems to have all those things.
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But he was a good baseball player and on the prison baseball team.
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On Baseball That baseball visionary, George Steinbrenner, was way ahead of Brian Cashman.
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And his responsibilities as a baseball player now extend beyond just playing baseball.
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BOSTON — As a baseball lifer, Terry Francona is superb at telling baseball stories.
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On Baseball Kyle Boddy has helped pitchers for years as a baseball outsider.
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On Baseball If you love baseball, you hate when people call it boring.
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The problem, though, is that baseball — good, high-level baseball — often is boring.
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On Baseball I started interviewing baseball players when I was 220 years old.
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More of a baseball player than an athlete who happens to play baseball.
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Reminiscent of casual baseball games of yore like Backyard Baseball, Super Mega Baseball 2 ditches the realism of the most popular baseball games to focus on the fun of the game: getting hits and trying to strike out your opponents.
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For non-baseball fans, the Mendoza Line is a baseball term for the batting average below which a hitter is not worth hiring for Major League Baseball.
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The United States National Women's Baseball team, which is part of USA Baseball, just returned from the Women's Baseball World Cup, held this month in South Korea.
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Other organizations, like Prep Baseball Report and RBI Baseball do some of the same things, but Perfect Game set the trend that the amateur baseball world follows.
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Also there's a presidential election happening, and a baseball team won a baseball event.
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Joe Torre, chief baseball officer for Major League Baseball, announced the suspensions on Friday.
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You cannot play baseball on that level without being a good baseball player, period.
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Baseball writers, and to a shrinking extent, baseball fans are psychotic about PED use.
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On Baseball CHICAGO — The 24 college baseball schedule sent Indiana University to Surprise, Ariz.
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Personally, I mixed up "Heighten" and REDOUBLE (baseball reference!), "Hindu" and NINJA (baseball reference
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The easy line is that baseball is baseball, no matter where it's being played.
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On Baseball For six seasons, Jose Bautista was the best power hitter in baseball.
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He proudly displays a baseball bat autographed by the Japanese baseball player Hideki Matsui.
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The subject of Christopher Phillips's " Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball " (Princeton) is baseball, but it's worth reading for more than just the baseball.
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Hamilton is at once baseball young and baseball old, and addiction is the reason why.
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I'm a baseball freak so of course I'm going to talk to Google about baseball.
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" That's like an assistant baseball coach saying that he "tries to stay out of baseball.
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Baseball and beer go hand in hand, for sure, but a baseball in a beer?
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He is a very committed baseball fan, and he could talk baseball like the professionals.
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"Baseball has done nothing, given no direction, for an alteration of the baseball," Manfred said.
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"It's the first sophisticated game that baseball fans could play to replicate baseball," Okrent said.
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Who is the most similar player in baseball history to Sheffield, according to baseball-reference.com?
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It is the Society of American Baseball Research, not the Society of Advanced Baseball Research.
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" In old age, Jim Bouton "can still grip a baseball, and baseball still grips him.
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It is the Society for American Baseball Research, not the Society for Advanced Baseball Research.
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Two-seam fastballs have been around Major League Baseball for decades, though the Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball enhanced the pitch's mythos when it came to U.S.-Japan baseball culture.
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There were a record 170 baseball defections in 2015, according to Cuban baseball journalist Francys Romero.
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Baseball Prospectus recently ranked Atlanta's system the best in baseball, and few would quibble with that.
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For more stories about the culture of baseball, check out La Sangre: Baseball in San Pedro.
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Baseball players: I wonder if there will be a scene from a certain baseball player's funeral.
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Kurz has bona fide baseball scouts and bona fide experts of the Jewish diaspora, baseball division.
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Recreation includes Sky Zone Trampoline Park and the Bethel Baseball Association's baseball fields in Mitchell Park.
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Baseball-mad Japan, predictably, requested baseball and softball, in addition to karate, climbing, surfing, and skateboarding.
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" Favorite baseball memory:"I have several baseball memories but I'm going to tell you this one.
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Speaking of baseball … Rob Neyer, the baseball writer, has long been a role model to me.
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If there's one thing that die-hard fans love more than baseball, it's arguing about baseball.
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On Baseball A defining measure of Tim Raines's greatness probably never appeared on his baseball cards.
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With another baseball season getting underway, it's an excellent time to dig into Brooklyn baseball history.
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Major League Baseball, for instance, runs the R.B.I. program that builds baseball fields in inner cities.
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Major League Baseball will always be the main reason that Major League Baseball cannot embrace change.
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Nearly two decades after Forman created Baseball-Reference, it ranks third among baseball sites, behind MLB.
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It's another week of This Particular Week In Baseball, the baseball column that gets you up to speed on baseball happenings so you can more effectively neglect other aspects of your life.
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This is the sort of thing that even fairly ardent baseball fans might not have known, because such people would presumably be watching Major League Baseball games instead of college baseball games.
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USA Baseball chose Girardi to manage the team in the World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12 in November.
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The best baseball player in 50 years (maybe ever) is less famous than his Baseball Reference page.
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A baseball game ended in a tie, which is significant because baseball games don't end in ties.
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A guy who wears his baseball cap backwards hires a guy who wears his baseball cap backwards.
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We have a lot of baseball games to start playing the baseball we know we can play.
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Major League Baseball chief baseball officer Joe Torre announced the punishment, which also includes an undisclosed fine.
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Enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, Yogi had a legendary baseball career, with a .
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Fans of Major League Baseball keep coming back to this Major League Baseball simulator, year after year.
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The Republican baseball team was practicing for the annual congressional baseball game before the shooting took place.
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As both Phillips and Lewis point out, baseball scoring begins almost as soon as there is baseball.
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That makes this a different sort of baseball movie, one in which not much baseball is played.
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"We played imaginary baseball," the current co-owner/GM/manager of the Nettuno Italy baseball club says.
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On Baseball TORONTO — The postseason began here on Tuesday with two fitting representatives of baseball in 2016.
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On Baseball Across their decades in baseball, Bud Selig and George Steinbrenner should have been natural adversaries.
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On Baseball As a new season dawns, many baseball people wonder where the game evolves from here.
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But also we see it in the weird names that baseball parents give their baseball-playing kids.
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He moved to baseball, then to a bigger newspaper, La Prensa, then to radio and baseball announcing.
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On Baseball LOS ANGELES — Every baseball manager expects to be second-guessed; it comes with the job.
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On Baseball The event at Citi Field on Sunday was billed as a major league baseball game.
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Delaney's straightforward baseball cap even has some zest: It's the "Power hitter" baseball cap, retailing for $230.
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On Baseball Say this for third base: It has the best nickname of any position in baseball.
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But in the early 20th century, many soccer clubs, like Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur, used baseball as a summer activity, and the name of Derby County's former soccer stadium was Ley's Baseball Ground (later known simply as the Baseball Ground), reflecting its use for baseball beginning in 1890.
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It reminds me of those baseball grumps who watched Ken Griffey Jr. — one of the great joyous players of recent baseball vintage — and groused that he wore his baseball cap backward in practice.
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On Baseball One of the beauties of baseball, baseball people will tell you, is that there is always a chance you'll see something at the ballpark that day that you've never seen before.
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As a minor league baseball player, you don't deserve the same wage as a major league baseball player.
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Good for minor league baseball, and good for baseball at large, not that the players will ever benefit.
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I went right from wishing I could cover to baseball to covering baseball... It was a lightning bolt.
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These fights are still going to happen, because baseball players are baseball players, and people do dumb things.
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It hasn't happened in Major League Baseball since 2012, and is one of most difficult accomplishments in baseball.
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Outside of the sport of baseball, the most natural context for a baseball bat is as a weapon.
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He saved 41.1 runs in 2008 and 37.8 in 2009, the most in baseball, according to Baseball Prospectus.
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Olympic baseball unlocks funds for national baseball federations, much of which goes to recruiting children to the sport.
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At least the baseball players will be playing baseball again—even if they aren't playing with their teams.
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"I think we will eventually cycle out of it, because that's what baseball does, baseball cycles," he said.
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Years ago I used to coach a lot of sports: high school baseball, Little League baseball, girls basketball.
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On Baseball Voting rules for the Baseball Hall of Fame allow a maximum of 10 choices per ballot.
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He was ranked as the seventh-best prospect in baseball by Baseball America and No. 12 by MLB.
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They're mostly journalists, statisticians and baseball writers who cover Major League Baseball for newspapers, magazines and web sites.
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On Baseball LOS ANGELES — Clay Bellinger played high school baseball in Oneonta, N.Y., in the shadow of Cooperstown.
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U.S.A. Baseball has devised a mobile coaching app with dozens of general baseball drills besides hitting and pitching.
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In January, Rivera became the first baseball player to be unanimously voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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For Alex Rodriguez, the baseball emoji is more than just a literal indication that some baseball is happening.
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I put the questions of baseball analytics to Joey Cora, brother of Alex and baseball coach for decades.
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At 200-1 odds, Israel's baseball team started as the biggest longshot to win the World Baseball Classic.
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The 25-year-old was suspended by Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the country's professional baseball governing body, in November for illegally betting on games, which included Major League Baseball and Japanese high school games.
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The commissioner of Major League Baseball on Wednesday threw his support behind congressional members' decision to move forward with a charity baseball game in the wake of a shooting at a GOP baseball practice.
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MLB heavily subsidizes Minor League Baseball by providing Minor League Baseball with its players, allowing professional baseball to be played in many communities in the United States that cannot support a Major League franchise.
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Although the Mets' bullpen had thrown 126 innings entering Friday's game, only the seventh most in baseball, their 134 total appearances in relief were the most in baseball, by 10, according to Baseball-Reference.com.
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On Baseball LOS ANGELES — This World Baseball Classic has taken the languid pastime of springtime baseball and turned it into something else, as if the game were being viewed through a fun house mirror.
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Kids who take up baseball in a non-baseball country start following Major League Baseball for a lack of local alternatives and soon become fans who can be monetized—I speak from personal experience here.
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