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ATLANTA (AP) — The Hammer made one last trip to the spot where he hit No. 715.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball Hall of Fame won’t have any new players in the class of 2021 after voters decided no one had the merits — on the field or off — for enshrinement in Cooperstown.
ATLANTA (AP) — Brian Snitker choked back tears as he remembered Hank Aaron’s affection for those who didn’t possess his unparalleled talent on the baseball field.
Like many baseball writers, C. Trent Rosecrans viewed the Hall of Fame vote as a labor of love. The ballot would arrive around the end of November, and it would keep him occupied for much of December. He’d write down his research on players in a notebook and feel butterflies when putting his ballot in the mail.
ATLANTA (AP) — His name is all over the baseball record book and, indeed, Hank Aaron could do it all.
ATLANTA (AP) — A timeline of Hank Aaron’s life and career:
ATLANTA (AP) — Full Name: Henry Louis Aaron
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves say baseball great and one-time home run king Hank Aaron has died at 86.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia pharmacist convicted of health care fraud is among 73 people pardoned by outgoing President Donald Trump.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jared Porter went from rising star to unemployed — literally overnight.
BELTON Texas (AP) — Family members of a Black man fatally shot by a Killeen, Texas, police officer who was responding to a mental health call are calling for the officer to be arrested and charged for the shooting.
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is suspending all political contributions in the wake of last week's invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob loyal to President Donald Trump, joining a wave of major corporations rethinking their efforts to lobby Washington.
The U.S. is entering the second month of the biggest vaccination drive in history with a major expansion of the campaign, opening football stadiums, major league ballparks, fairgrounds and convention centers to inoculate a larger and more diverse pool of people.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Growing more and more frail, Tommy Lasorda looked on from a suite at Globe Life Field in Texas, watching as the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the World Series in Game 6 against the Tampa Bay Rays.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jon “Boog” Sciambi is the new TV play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Cubs, replacing Len Kasper.
It was a milestone year for women in sports, starting with Katie Sowers becoming the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl and ending with Becky Hammon serving as an NBA head coach.
The 2020 baseball season is going to end soon and the most popular response around here will likely be good riddance to bad rubbish. Credit wi…
The 2020 baseball season is going to end soon and the most popular response around here will likely be good riddance to bad rubbish. Credit wi…
Darryl Strawberry doesn't have much time for baseball these days.
Major League Baseball's fumbling attempt to salvage its season amid a pandemic - the difficulty of which settled in almost as soon as the season got underway - is something other sports leagues and businesses around the country are almost certainly keeping a close and wary eye on. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the sports world in March, the NBA and NHL had already completed most of ...
One-tenth of baseball's shortest season ever has been completed and other than the fact Rob Manfred wakes up every morning holding his breath that another team hasn't been hit with a rash of COVID-19 positive tests, there have already been some telling signs about what to expect to see come October.
PHILADELPHIA - Rob Manfred sat in an MLB Network studio Monday night - with 13 members of the Miami Marlins' traveling party infected by COVID-19 and holed up in a Rittenhouse Square hotel, but no recent positive tests involving any of the other 29 teams - and stated with confidence that the situation didn't represent a "nightmare" scenario for Major League Baseball. The commissioner was ...
Baseball is in danger of inadvertently affixing a scarlet "C" to players and teams affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. It starts at the top with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who lumped all players together when he told ESPN they "need to be better" in following the health and safety protocols issued by the league. That came one day after reportedly threatening to shut down the sport and ...
