Rex Bowen, Who Scouted Baseball, Dies at 93
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Rex Bowen was the baseball scout who signed Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills and Dick Groat.
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CHICAGO  - Howard Keel, who sang and  danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of  colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Mel Stottlemyre will remain the New York Yankees pitching coach next season, then retire. Stottlemyre, who turns 63 on Saturday, has handled Joe Torre&#39;s pitching staff since 1996.
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The Chicago Cubs acquired veteran catcher Jason Kendall on Monday in a trade with the Oakland Athletics for catcher Rob Bowen and minor league pitcher Jerry Blevins.
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Johnny Oates, who managed the Texas Rangers to three division titles in the 1990's, the only postseason appearances in the franchise's history, died on Friday.
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Tom Bowen admitted being a step or two late Wednesday morning as he hustled through Boston to his job as a bartender. Another late night rooting for his Boston Red Sox had left him elated &#151; and worn down.
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James L. Ogle Sr., who wrote two books with Roger Maris during a reporting career that spanned five decades, died at 93.
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Rolland Mays Stiles, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, died on Sunday at the age of 100 in a nursing home in St Louis, the Post-Dispatch newspaper reported on Monday.
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Harvey R. "Bum" Bright, the former Dallas Cowboys owner who sold the team to Jerry Jones, has died. He was 84. Bright died Saturday at his Highland Park home after a long illness.
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SEATTLE - Chasing a nearly forgotten ghost of the game, Ichiro Suzuki broke one of baseball&#39;s oldest records Friday night, smoking a single up the middle for his 258th hit of the year and breaking George Sisler&#39;s record for the most hits in a season
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John "Buck" O'Neil, a key figure in Negro Leagues baseball and a ground-breaking coach in the major leagues, has died at the age of 94.
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Bob Howsam, who assembled the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati, helped put the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series and co-founded the Denver Broncos, died Tuesday in Sun City, Ariz. He was 89.
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Seattle Mariners: The team has hired former major league player and manager Don Baylor as hitting coach. Baylor, 55, spent the past two seasons as a bench coach for the New York Mets.
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WEYMOUTH - Frank Murano loves to play ball and, at age 86, he not only keeps up a rigorous game schedule across the country but has earned a spot in the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame.
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Veteran stage, movie and television actor and singer Howard Keel has died of colon cancer at his California home. He was 85. His most lucrative stint was on television&#39;s &quot;Dallas
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The last hurrah for Ellis Burks began with a simple procedure. The Red Sox activated the venerable 40-year-old before Thursday night&#39;s game against the Orioles.
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Syd Thrift, a former general manger of the Pittsburgh Pirates who spent nearly a half century in baseball, died at 77.