Baseballs smoked no longer
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They're on racks in an insulated storeroom, as many as 400 dozen sleek beauties hand-wrapped by skilled Costa Rican artisans, kept fat and moist until they're ready to be unwrapped and held between thumb and forefinger. No Havana cigars have ever been more fussed over than the Rawlings baseballs the Rockies keep in their humidor at Coors Field, ...
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It was not a pitch Roger Clemens regretted. Inner half of the plate, a little up and 94 mph. The Rocket is going to Cooperstown on such pitches.
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Do you believe in curses? I don't. A certain baseball team cured me of such folly three summers ago when they defied seemingly insurmountable odds and won their first World Series title in 86 years.
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Major League Baseball has introduced a Department of Investigations to lead the fight against drugs in the sport, it said on Friday. The new department will have "primary responsibility for conducting all investigations into violations of Major League Baseball's rules and policies," said an MLB statement.
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Baseballs will keep their cool this summer. The commissioner's office is telling teams for the first time that balls must be stored at a uniform temperature after they are delivered from the manufacturer.
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Ramirez, who was diagnosed with a left knee contusion, was replaced in the field by Dave Roberts. X-rays were negative, and he is listed as day-to- day...Cabrera&#39;s infield single to third in the fifth extended
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By Andy Meinen, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 9--A nearly month-old statewide burn ban on yard debris was lifted Friday, but a Bay County ordinance still prohibits burning yard waste here.
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Joe Torre always says that nothing restores order like a well-pitched ballgame. Consider order restored. Mike Mussina tossed eight brilliant innings of three-hit ball
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Stick a tape in the VCR and save it for posterity. Clip the newspapers. Buy the frame for the ticket stub. Baseball history beckons.
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Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox smiles while smoking a cigar in the dugout before the start of a spring training workout in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
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I played two seasons of Little League in Queens under a cigar-chomping manager named Morty Silver. My sole distinction was winning a trophy for Best Sport, which Morty gave me for crying the least after striking out. The only other thing I remember were the scoreboards at the better fields: They were all bulbs in the days before monster television ...
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CHICAGO Police say a groundskeeper at Wrigley Field found the rusted, hollowed-out shell of a grenade in the right-field turf. The police&#39;s Bomb and Arson investigators were called yesterday to the home of
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The Mitchell steroids report finally hangs culpability on baseballâs commissioner and the players union chief all the way down to the most drug-free players who refused to challenge their leadership.
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1908 &#151; In a crucial game with the Chicago Cubs, Fred Merkle of the New York Giants failed to touch second base as the apparent winning run crossed home plate. This resulted in a great dispute and the game was eventually declared a tie and played over on Oct. 8 after the Cubs and Giants ended the season in a tie.
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Joe Torre offered a simple explanation for his team's recent turnaround. "Looseness. These guys are having fun with each other," the Yankees' manager said Sunday after New York's sluggers broke loose in a 13-6 victory over the Pirates.
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As moderate as George Mitchellâs report was, it had no power to force baseball to upgrade its testing and penalties. Labor and management still have to work out the next steps.
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Mike Matheny's decision to retire was made for him. His doctor refused to clear the longtime catcher to play in 2007 after a concussion sidelined him for the final four months of last season.