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• Wakefield glad to inspire Japanese schoolgirl
TOKYO - Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield was the inspiration for a 16-year-old girl who has been drafted to play for a Japanese pro baseball team. Now, he’s hoping maybe she will teach him a thing or two. “Hope I can see her pitch one day ...
• Yanks' offer to Sabathia won't stay on table long
The Yankees formulated a proposal to CC Sabathia that would exceed Johan Santana's $137.5 million, six-year contract with the New York Mets both in total and average, according to a baseball official familiar with the negotiations. NEW YORK - CC ...
• Mike Celizic
Baseball without George M. Steinbrenner III is like trailer parks without tornadoes, bayous without alligators, talk radio without Rush Limbaugh. It might be safer for some, but it won’t be the same. Love him or hate him, the man who has variously ...
• A Flyin’ Lion, an onrushing Tide, hard hoops fouls and more.
NEW YORK - There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad ...
• The miniature killer returns on ‘CSI’
Nick quickly realized that they’d been playing mailbox baseball and whatever the boy had hit with the bat had caused his arm to break and his shoulder to dislocate, and in turn caused the accident. It turned out that Hal Jackman, sick of the boys ...