“The Bambino” knocked this one out of the park. The first Babe Ruth baseball card fetched an unbelievable $4.026 million at Heritage’s Fall Sports Catalog Auction on Friday. The 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card was issued back when Ruth was a 19-year-old minor league pitcher in Baltimore — and fewer than a dozen are … Read more
His bat flip was a little off-key. Morgan Wallen hurled a baseball bat at MLB star José Bautista’s wife while mimicking the former Toronto Blue Jays’ famous bat flip during a pre-concert walkout in Canada. The now-viral faux pas happened as the country star, known for his star-studded arena entrances, walked alongside the baseball legend … Read more
Major League Baseball is in advanced talks with NBC to ink a three-year rights deal for the network to carry games. The deal would see NBC shell out nearly $200 million annually and would see the network carry MLB games on Sunday nights, the Wall Street Journal reported. MLB games would air on the broadcast … Read more
Now that’s a hole-in-one celebration. The Texas A&M baseball team paid homage to the ongoing Masters tournament by unveiling a green jacket celebration for a home run during Thursday’s 8-7 win in 10 innings over South Carolina. First baseman Blake Binderup crushed a grand slam in the third inning to give the Aggies a 6-3 … Read more
From “Eight Men Out” to “Field of Dreams,” baseball movies are usually enraptured by the past. Steeped in traditions, these films celebrate homespun heroes whose anything-is-possible journeys toward a championship elevate our spirits. But two baseball movies from the last 20 years had something else on their minds that would alter how the sport was … Read more
There’s no crying in baseball, but grab your tissues for this. The historic baseball field featured in the 1992 family comedy “A League of Their Own” was destroyed in an overnight fire. The Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, CA, built in the 1930s, could not be saved after it was engulfed in flames just … Read more
Kate Upton had no clue what she was getting herself into falling in love with a baseball player. The supermodel and actress, who is married to Houston Astros pitcher Justin Verlander, made an appearance on the “Chicks in the Office” podcast where she opened up about being the wife of a baseball star. “Being a … Read more
It was mostly a night off for David Cone. Cone revealed Sunday he wouldn’t be on the air for the Yankees-Red Sox “Sunday Night Baseball Game” on ESPN, saying he was “under the weather” in a post on X. “Unfortunately, I’m under the weather and won’t be able to join Karl (Ravech), Eduardo (Perez) and … Read more
The Subway Series rivalry might be carrying over to the broadcast booth. During his Tuesday afternoon edition of “The Michael Kay Show,” which airs on ESPN Radio and is simulcast on YES Network, host and Yankees television broadcaster Michael Kay took issue with an advertisement by neighboring TV station SNY. “What I’m going to say … Read more
Sean Penn cleared the air about his past relationship with Madonna. The Oscar winner, 63, told the New York Times that he never physically assaulted the “Vogue” singer, 65, when they were married from 1985 to 1989. Penn recalled the time that his home was raised by the SWAT team after Madonna called the police … Read more
David Duchovny is hardly the first American novelist to find literary profundity in baseball — Bernard Malamud and Don DeLillo spring quickly to mind. Not just baseball as a thing itself — a very American thing, better still — but baseball as a metaphor for Life Itself. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. While … Read more
Tempers flared in the Atlantic Sun Conference baseball tournament on Thursday. After Stetson beat Austin Peay, 5-3, the head coaches Roland Fanning and Steve Trimper got heated. Fanning, the Austin Peay head coach, confronted Trimper and and pointed at him. As Trimper was trying to get him to calm down, Fanning smacked Trimper’s hand away, … Read more
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made history when he signed onto the National League’s Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB). Just six weeks later, Larry Doby, a 23-year-old from Paterson, NJ, left the Newark Eagles in the Negro National League to join the Cleveland Indians and … Read more
Derek Jeter is best positioned to be the biggest TV voice in baseball. He just finished his rookie season of a multi-million-dollar Fox Sports contract, which is for a total of six years, according to sources. The Captain is committed to TV for the long haul. With his legendary playing career and his presence as … Read more
Child star-turne-Playboy centerfold model Madisyn Shipman announced a music video for her song “Baseball Games” which hints at her relationship with an unknown MLB player. Her pitcher “situationship-turned-relationship” of a year and a half remains unidentified. However, her music video features easter eggs about the mystery man’s identity. Shipman released the music video for her … Read more
There’s no crying in baseball. An anonymous Redditor has taken to the “Am I the A—hole” forum to ask if he was a jerk for leaving his wife behind to go to a baseball game after she took too long to get ready. He began the post Tuesday by explaining that they had been looking … Read more
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred joins Andrew Marchand and John Ourand on this week’s show for a half-hour interview. During the sit-down interview, Manfred goes deep into the future of local media, blackouts, Apple, Peacock, ESPN, fragmentation, Yankees TV, what the future of sports gambling will look like, how a different pitch clock was considered for … Read more
Talk about an inside the park home run. A Miami Marlins affiliate owned by two-time masters champ Bubba Watson has put the team’s Pensacola, FL ballpark on Airbnb for a little over $5K a night. This triple play stay offers up to ten guests field access and clubhouse connected sleeping arrangements in what the team … Read more
There’s an old saying that you learn something new every day, and that held true for Colin Cowherd last week. The well-known sports talk host was discussing with Jason McIntyre what it would take in his mind to trade Shohei Ohtani. The Los Angeles Angels superstar will be a free agent after this season, and … Read more
One of the most fun internet theories in recent history has been squashed like a bug. Several days before the “Succession” series finale aired on HBO on Sunday night, nameberry.com editor-in-chief Sophie Kihm predicted in a video that went wildly viral that Tom Wambsgans would emerge as head of Waystar-Royco, on the basis that Cleveland … Read more