After Sign of Progress, Baseball Settles Down
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A potentially historic day for the Major League Baseball Players Association regarding the future of drug testing was followed by a relaxing day on Wednesday.
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Joe Torre gathered the Yankees before Monday night's game at Jacobs Field and imparted a simple message: put aside the struggles of the past week.
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Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein, wearing his red AL pennant-winning T-shirt and dripping in champagne, might have felt at peace for the first time since 2004.
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Major League Baseball and the players' union came together yesterday in a rare show of compromise and solidarity, one aimed at refurbishing the game's tarnished image, safeguarding players' long-term health, and restoring credence to the offensive accomplishments of the game's sluggers.
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Carlos Beltran's bat was silent in Game 7 of the NL championship series. Now, the Houston Astros center fielder will take some quiet time to ponder his future.
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Major League Baseball players finally came to their senses this week, telling their lawyers to reach an agreement on tougher testing for steroids.
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Winter meetings kick off on Friday in Anaheim. BALCO aside, it&#39;s been a quiet baseball offseason, but that&#39;s about to change.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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The opening weeks of Mets training camp have alternately been described in varying shades of Zen: Calm. Peaceful. Idyllic. But that relative peace has been ruptured.
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The school's baseball manager tires of seeing his catchers getting skulled by the ball, and he comes up with a solution that revolutionizes the game.
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Bee Staff Writer. LOS ANGELES - One down, two or three to go - that&#39;s the Giants&#39; mantra after they successfully took their first step of a weekend mission at Dodger Stadium.
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ST. PETERSBURG - It took the Boston Red Sox most of Tuesday to shake off their hangovers from their playoff-clinching celebration the previous night.
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com. Now that the Red Sox have reigned on their parade, and even before the cleanup crews have finished tidying up Boston, the baseball calendar shifts from the field to the boardroom.
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Shane Victorino typically spends off days relaxing in the dugout. He changed his routine Sunday and the move worked.
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As far as Washington is concerned, the negotiations with Major League Baseball are essentially done. Now it's a matter of waiting for a 33-year drought to end.
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No more speculation about what so many people have felt was happening for so long. Baseball has a major problem with performance enhancing drugs.
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This season's version of the Low-Budget World Series opened Tuesday in a gloomy, 24-year-old ballpark with a Hefty bag for a right-field fence. Even so, this is what passes for progress in major league baseball circles.