Record home run hit lands in court
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In an action that combines America&#39;s love of sport and litigation, two baseball fans have called on the courts to resolve their opposing claims to own the ball with which a top player hit a record 700th home run.
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Babe Ruth&#39;s 46-ounce bat that ushered in the new Yankee Stadium in 1923 with a monstrous home run was sold yesterday for a record $1.265 million - the most ever paid for a baseball bat.
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Ichiro Suzuki set the major league record for hits in a season with 258, breaking George Sisler&#39;s 84-year-old mark with a pair of singles Friday night.
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Barry Bond's record-breaking home run ball was auctioned for more than $750,000, well above what sports memorabilia experts had expected the ball to fetch, the auctioneer said on Saturday.
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MIAMI - Pete Rose is back in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which says the baseball great owes nearly $1 million in unpaid taxes.    The IRS filed a federal tax lien in Broward County on Tuesday alleging that baseball's all-time hits king owes $973,693.28 in back taxes from 1997 to 2002...
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Joe Randa ties a major-league record with six runs scored as the Kansas City Royals break a club record for runs in a 26-5 rout of the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader on Thursday.
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It was no ordinary baseball, but the baseball that Barry Bonds hit over the left-field fence last month at SBC Park in San Francisco for his 700th career homer and promptly was put on the online auction block.
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For fans cheering against Barry Bonds as he approaches Hank Aaron's home run record, there is some hope. For those wishing to be there in person if Bonds breaks the record, there is some help.
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Ichiro, with 914 hits since his rookie year in 2001, is currently on pace to set the record for most hits over any four-year span in the majors.
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Barry Bonds hit his 722nd career home run hours after the federal grand jury considering possible perjury and tax-evasion charges against him expired without an indictment, and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 9-3 on Thursday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Baseballer Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run today when drilling a pitch from Jake Peavy into the left field seats in the third inning against the San Diego Padres.
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Derek Jeter tied a postseason record for hits in a game, going 5 for 5 and capping his night with a home run over the center-field wall in the eighth inning.
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Exhibit A: Sometime over the next few days, a San Francisco athlete will break baseball's most treasured record. Despite his achievement of hitting more home runs than anyone else in Major League Baseball, Barry Bonds will be greeted with rage, ridicule and vast amounts of spit -- because many pe...
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Electronic bidding began for Barry Bondsâs 755th and 756th home-run balls, with the price for the record-breaker starting at $100,000.
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This week&#39;s reminder comes courtesy of a lawsuit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court over ownership of another Barry Bonds home run ball.
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Barry Bonds hit his 751st home run on Tuesday night, pulling himself within four of Hank Aaron's record.
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MIAMI - Pete Rose is back in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which says the baseball great owes nearly $1 million in unpaid taxes. The IRS filed a federal tax lien in Broward County on Tuesday alleging that baseball's all-time hits king owes $973,693.28 in back taxes from 1997 to 2002...