Mets Adviser Chuck Hiller Dies at 70
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Chuck Hiller, who hit the National League's first grand slam in the World Series, has died. He was 70.
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One-time National League Most Valuable Player and Bay Area native Ken Caminiti is dead. Caminiti&#39;s agent says the former Houston Astros and Texas Rangers third baseman died of a heart attack in the Bronx.
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Rod Beck, an All-Star relief pitcher who wore a bushy mustache while earning 286 career saves, has died. He was 38. Beck was found Saturday by police officers responding to a call to his home in suburban Phoenix, police department spokesman Andy Hill said Sunday. Foul play is not suspected, though the cause of death might not be known for several days.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Let me see if I have this straight: Curt Schilling shows up in spring training of 2007 and goes on the radio to announce to his bosses that the 2007 season will not be his final year in the big leagues. Even though he's looking more like John Candy than John Candelaria, Schill contradicts everything he'd ...
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This is the way Mets fans wanted their team to do it with Vladimir Guerrero and Alex Rodriguez. They wanted the general manager of the moment, Steve Phillips or Jim Duquette, to get in there early.
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As the Mets round out their search for a new manager, the club is giving a last-minute nod to its past. Wally Backman, an infielder for the Mets from 1980-88 who played second base on the 1986
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One of Theo Epstein's most valued baseball men, Bill Lajoie, who has spent 50 years in the game and won a World Series in 1984 in his first year as general manager of the Detroit Tigers, used the occasion of accepting a scouting award last week at the winter meetings to make an appeal on behalf of a friend.
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Trey Hillman is hired Friday as manager of the Kansas City Royals, taking over a long-struggling team that hasn't been to the playoffs since winning the 1985 World Series.
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Former Texas and Baltimore manager Johnny Oates has died at age 58. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago. Oates&#39; death was confirmed by John Blake, who formerly worked as a spokesman with the Rangers organization.
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Rex Bowen, the great baseball scout who signed Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills and Dick Groat, died at 93.
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Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and his former bosses Wednesday, claiming they made him a âscapegoatâ for a discredited story about President Bushâs military service during the Vietnam War.  The 75-year-old Rather, whose final mont...
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Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, a New Orleans sports commentator who originated the tradition of fans wearing bags on their heads to lament losing teams, has died at the age of 73. Diliberto died of a heart attack Friday at his home in Metairie, said his son, Mike Diliberto.
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Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson is set to stay in New York for a few more years.
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Johnny Podres, who pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series title in 1955, died Sunday at the age of 75.
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Former Federal Reserve Governor Edward Gramlich, who served at the U.S. central bank from 1997 to 2005 and suffered from leukemia, died on Wednesday, a Washington policy group said.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Former Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles manager Johnny Oates has died, three years after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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After a prolonged tug of war between New York's baseball neighbors, the Mets announced that they had hired Rick Down to be their hitting coach.