Honus Wagner baseball card nets &#36;2.35M
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The "Holy Grail of baseball cards," the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2,350,000, the seller of the card said Monday.
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DENVER -- National League MVP runner-up Matt Holliday agreed Friday to a $23 million, two-year contract Friday with the Colorado Rockies that avoided arbitration.
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The San Francisco Giants re-signed Ray Durham to a two-year contract Friday that will pay the second baseman between $14 million and $15 million.
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PHILADELPHIA (Sports Network) - The Philadelphia Phillies  have picked up the option for next season on closer Billy  Wagner. Under the terms of the contract, Wagner will make $9  million in 2005. If the club not exercised the option, Wagner  would have been owed a $3 million buyout and would have been  eligible to file for free agency.
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At last, Shea Hillenbrand got that big clutch hit the San Francisco Giants have been waiting for. Hillenbrand singled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning and the Giants beat the slumping San Diego Padres 3-2 Tuesday night.
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MasterCard Inc., the world&#039;s No. 2  credit-card association, priced an initial public offering of  stock worth about &#36;2.4 billion on Wednesday, amid expectations  of strong demand for one of the financial services industry&#039;s  top brands.
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The big-barreled ash-wood bat wielded by baseball legend Ruth to help beat fierce rivals Boston Red Sox 4-1 in the inaugural game at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923, was the top item in a baseball memorabilia sale at Sotheby&#39;s.
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Paul Lo Duca, who was introduced on Tuesday as the Washington Nationals' starting catcher for 2008, was among the players alleged to have paid a former New York Mets clubhouse attendant for steroids, according to the Mitchell Report released yesterday.
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Deloitte &amp; Touche accountant Cory Boss spent Game 3 of the World Series, collecting a couple dozen balls used in the game, four bases, a commemorative home plate and pitching rubber used for the first pitch, and both the Red Sox and Cardinals line-up cards signed by the team managers.
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Una 'baseball card' dell'inizio del secolo scorso, raffigurante il leggendario Honus Wagner, &egrave...
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By Jane Bennett Clark Kiplinger's Personal Finance  You're desperate to find a baseball card featuring Oscar Dugey, who played for the Boston Braves in 1914. Your son is equally eager to get rid of last year's five-pound chemistry textbook.
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Marlins right-hander Josh Beckett agrees to a $2.4 million, one-year contract Tuesday, leaving the team with no players in arbitration.
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Boxing promoter Don King filed a &#36;2.5 billion defamation suit Wednesday, claiming he was portrayed in a false light on an ESPN "SportsCentury" segment aired last May.
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Philadelphia Phillies closer Billy Wagner was suspended for two games Friday by major league baseball and fined an undisclosed amount after he was ejected against the New York Mets last weekend.
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Giants slugger Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball drew a top bid of &#36;804,129 Wednesday after a 10-day online auction.
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The St. Louis Cardinals are officially looking for a new second baseman. Tony Womack and the New York Yankees reached a preliminary agreement last night on a $2 million, two-year contract.
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Right-hander Matt Clement and the Boston Red Sox are closing in on a three-year contract worth &#36;25 million, according to reports citing his agent.