Manny Ramirez, a 12-time All-Star whose 555 home runs rank 14th in Major League Baseball history, agreed to a minor-league contract with the Oakland Athletics. The suspended slugger agreed on a minor-league contract Monday with the Athletics that is worth about $500,000 if he is added to the major-league roster. A’s officials announced the deal [...]
The Boston Red Sox’ miserable start by blanking the visiting New York Yankees in a 4-0 victory Sunday night to help the Red Sox take two of three from their rivals over the weekend series. Beckett (1-0) silenced the best home-run hitting team in baseball, allowing just two hits with 10 strikeouts in 8 scoreless [...]
NESN has reaction after Many Ramirez abrubutbly retires from baseball. Manny Ramirez walked away from baseball on Friday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug, abruptly ending the mercurial career of one of the most talented – and tainted – hitters to ever play the game. The slumping Tampa Bay slugger informed Major League Baseball [...]
Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder for the charmed “Boys of Summer” who helped the Dodgers bring their elusive and only World Series crown to Brooklyn, died Sunday. He was 84. Snider died at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido. His family said he died of natural causes. Duke Snider hit .295 [...]
St. Louis Cardinals’ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William O. DeWitt, Jr., spoke to the media about the current contract status of first baseman Albert Pujols heading into the 2011 season. St. Louis Cardinals made Albert Pujols what they said was their best offer. It wasn’t enough. So get ready, baseball: Pujols seems headed for [...]
Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter donated a kidney to freshman outfielder Kevin Jordan, who suffers from a disease that can lead to kidney failure. Both men met with the media in an Atlanta hospital while recovering Wednesday. With an undergraduate enrollment of fewer than 4,500 students, Wake Forest is one of the smallest schools [...]
Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven became Hall of Famers on Wednesday, the two-time World Series champions easily elected after narrow misses last season. After a narrow miss last year, Bert Blyleven wasn’t shy in saying voters finally got it right by sending him into the Hall of Fame, along with Roberto Alomar. But prolific sluggers [...]
The Phillies stunned the baseball world when they signed Lee to a five-year, $120 million contract, which includes a vesting option for a sixth season that would increase the deal to $135 million. Lee passed up more money from the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers to join Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels [...]
Ron Santo was a great baseball player, his death is tragic and is a great loss to his fans and loved ones. Ron Santo only got 39 votes when he needed 48 to get entrance into the Hall of Fame almost two years ago to the date. You need 75 percent of the vote to [...]
That’s how Sparky Anderson will be remembered by those whose lives he touched — and, in some cases, whose careers he guided. From the players who played for him, to the umpires with whom he sometimes disagreed, to commissioner Bud Selig, who knew him and liked him long before he became the commissioner, Anderson will [...]