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Syracuse, N.Y. — The trip to Cooperstown was part of Ken Shepard’s Man Week with his 7-year-old son, Travis. In July, the two Shepard men took a special trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame where they received the “white glove” tour. They got to see some of the museum’s rarest exhibits, which required white gloves for Travis to touch and hold items such as Lou Gehrig’s bat. It…

Watching Mike Trout is never bad. (USATSI) We’ve hit the intersection point in Fantasy season. Baseball is coming to a close just as football is starting. While there are some Fantasy owners who only participate in one sport, there are many who spend their time enjoying both products. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each. This ought to stir up some hot…

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It’s Labor Day and the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals are both in first place. September baseball should be interesting. Not fun, necessarily, because each game will mean too much. The real beauty of baseball is the length of the season. April games are the best. Six months of baseball ahead, and no single game breaks your heart. Instead, the games are all about hope. In football, an…

It’s not the sort of accomplishment that ESPN is likely to crow about, but Philadelphia Phillies center-fielder Ben Revere is on track to set an astonishing baseball record—a mark that says as much about the game today as Barry Bonds’s 73 home runs said about the swollen biceps that defined the early 21st century. Revere is currently batting just over .313, higher than any other player in the National League. That figure would match…

A sports museum complex set for groundbreaking by fall 2015 in Whiting will still include a hall of fame for sports mascots, but another wing dedicated to Chicago’s baseball history is no longer part of the project. Whiting officials confirmed this week they had decided to end their relationship with the Chicago Baseball Museum, which was supposed to occupy about 35,000 square feet in the complex, to be built on…

KOKOMO (Sept. 2, 2014) – The city of Kokomo has announced plans for a new baseball team that will play starting next year at Kokomo Municipal Stadium, which is currently under construction. Mayor Greg Goodnight joined officials from the Prospect League for the announcement at Kokomo City Hall. Michael Zimmerman will own the Kokomo team, which will play in the twelve-team, six-state league starting in the 2015 season. Two other…

KOKOMO (Sept. 2, 2014) – The city of Kokomo has announced plans for a new baseball team that will play starting next year at Kokomo Municipal Stadium, which is currently under construction. Mayor Greg Goodnight joined officials from the Prospect League for the announcement at Kokomo City Hall. Michael Zimmerman will own the Kokomo team, which will play in the twelve-team, six-state league starting in the 2015 season. Two other…

Justin Plumlee RANDLEMAN, N.C. — A middle school baseball coach was killed over Labor Day weekend while celebrating a friend’s bachelor party in Folly Beach, S.C. Authorities say 29-year-old Justin Plumlee was walking home with another groomsman when 31-year-old Andrew Lanzaro hit the two and kept driving. Plumlee died at the hospital. Plumlee coached baseball at Randleman Middle School the past three years. “He always had a thing about working hard….

Edna Ferber did not utter the line above as an ironic comment on San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence. She died 15 years before he was born. Still, the two have a connection. Chances are you have no idea who Edna Ferber is, and a few years from now you probably won’t know who Pence is either. This is no insult to either of them; it’s just the…

When I was a little boy, I loved rummaging through the family attic and basement. I remember the brittle, yellowed newspapers from the Kennedy assassination and the death of Yankees manager Miller Huggins in 1929 and a framed print showing all the presidents up through Lyndon Johnson. And I loved the musty smell from opening the vintage books in my father’s library. One that stuck in my mind was a…

Melinda Sue Gordon/AP An off-base portrayal — except in some deeper way, true. Remember Philip Seymour Hoffman as an angry version of Art Howe in Moneyball, bristling at Brad Pitt’s every innovation? By most accounts, including Howe’s, this was an unfair and simplified portrayal, but it spoke to a deeper tension that does exist in the game. Baseball’s front offices are becoming ever-stronger and more erudite, which…

The game started on Thursday and it ended on Sunday with the final score 3-0. The game was played in the semi-final round of the National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament.

KOKOMO (Sept. 2, 2014) – The city of Kokomo has announced plans for a new baseball team that will play starting next year at Kokomo Municipal Stadium, which is currently under construction. Mayor Greg Goodnight joined officials from the Prospect League for the announcement at Kokomo City Hall. Michael Zimmerman will own the Kokomo team, which will play in the twelve-team, six-state league starting in the 2015 season. Two other…

(Photo: The Associated Press) ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Although Mike Trout has accomplished an extraordinary amount in his short major league career with the Los Angeles Angels, he is quick to point out he’s only just getting to the good stuff. The Angels’ star center fielder is awfully excited to be at the start of his first pennant race with the Angels, and he’s hoping October in Orange County will…

Chukyo High School beat Miura Gakuen High School in the longest game in National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament history Sunday, winning 3-0 in the 50th inning after four days and 49 scoreless innings. Games in the tournament are played with a rubber ball called a nanshiki, which is lighter than a regular baseball and doesn’t travel as far, which cuts down on scoring. The box score from the is…

BIDDEFORD, Maine – A baseball fan took up smoking a century ago and with it acquired another habit: holding onto little cards that bore the faces of baseball’s earliest greats. Now, the trove of more than 1,400 tobacco cards featuring a slew of Hall of Famers like Cy Young and Ty Cobb – the legacy of a teenage smoker whose family hung onto a collection that dates to 1909 –…

(Photo: The Associated Press) ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Although Mike Trout has accomplished an extraordinary amount in his short major league career with the Los Angeles Angels, he is quick to point out he’s only just getting to the good stuff. The Angels’ star center fielder is awfully excited to be at the start of his first pennant race with the Angels, and he’s hoping October in Orange County will…

Few things are an unalloyed good, other than dental anesthesia, and even then I’ve heard tell of people expiring in that big chair when they thought they were just going to have a cavity filled; you never think to say goodbye to your loved ones before having a cavity filled. For that matter, the “discovery” of ether as the means of painless extraction by William T. G. Morton brought him…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Indians are back in town for a big series with the Detroit Tigers. And it’s September. And I’m still not sure how this happened, how the Tribe is in contention for anything in September. But they were only 3 1/2 games behind Kansas City in the Central Division heading into Monday’s 4:05 p.m. game with Detroit. These are not the Indians of 2013, the team that…