Baseball is in his blood
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Revolution striker Taylor Twellman was among the closet Cardinal fans at Fenway Park Sunday night. Twellman and his wife were in the standing room section, but if Twellman had chosen differently as a teenager, he might have been on the playing field instead of in the stands.
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The World Series champion Boston Red Sox will autograph and donate a jersey to a foundation set up in the name of the 21-year-old student who was fatally wounded two weeks ago by police trying to gain control of an unruly crowd.
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The slugger&#39;s testimony on steroid use raises sharp questions about integrity of baseball and all pro sports. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Ken Caminiti was never short of fearless on a baseball field. He made incredible stops at third base, swatted home runs from both sides of the plate and played through pain that would wither most men.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Winning the deciding game of the World Series, the part everyone else remembers and celebrates, he doesn't dwell on, maybe because Jon Lester is determined to be known as something other than Celebrity Cancer Boy.
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One in an occasional series about the Boston Red Sox and their 86-year quest to win it all. BOSTON - It comes up just shy of bloodcurdling, but this one man, this one sports-radio czar, has
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Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester is returning to baseball after being told he had cancer during his rookie season.
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WASHINGTON - This has been quite an offseason for the game of baseball. Two weeks ago, the scourge of steroids finally and inevitably caught up with the sport, leaving the reputation of the game&#39;s biggest star in tatters.
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J.D. Drew is still adjusting to the leadoff spot. Hitting there isn't the problem. Finding his name is.
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The Red Sox announced yesterday that rookie lefthanded pitcher Jon Lester has cancer. It's a treatable form of anaplastic large cell lymphoma. The brief press release, delivered by the team at the request of Lester's family shortly before 6 p.m., said treatment will begin within a week.
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The player swinging for the most storied record in baseball is being linked more than ever to what could be the sport&#39;s biggest scandal since the Chicago White Sox threw the 1919 World Series.
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You can holler nasty things at him; chant "A-Rod! A-Rod!" all day. You can yell every time there's a popup to third base and hope he drops it, but the bottom line is this: Alex Rodriguez is one great baseball player.
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The blood clots that went from Aaron Cook's shoulder to his lungs might threaten his career.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - A blood-stained sock  worn by Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling during the World  Series last year has entered baseball's Hall of Fame.
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A city police officer was attacked by a man with a baseball bat early this morning in the 115th precinct in Queens, police said. The uniformed police officer, who is on an impact post, was patrolling on foot at about 1:20 a.m. at 102nd Street and 39th Ave., about a mile west of Shea Stadium in the Corona neighborhood. He was approached by a man with a baseball bat, who struck the officer in the head with the bat and stole his gun. A second police officer saw the commotion from a distance, unaware that it was a fellow officer who had been attacked, police said. He chased the bat-wielding man, capturing him and recovering the gun before making an arrest.
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It isn't as though Hideki Matsui hasn't been in the middle of a baseball blood rivalry before. In Japan, the clan war between the Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers has been going on for decades. It's just as lopsided (30 Central League titles for the Giants, 4 for the Tigers) and it even has its own curse.
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A recently discovered blood clot in his lung will sideline Cubs reliever Glendon Rusch for the rest of the season, but the condition is not life threatening.