Before MLB allowed TV money to become the tail that wagged its dog, one of life’s great simple pleasures was weekend baseball. And before TV executives decided that we prefer our baseball telecasts smothered in verbal and visual detritus — as if we demanded to know the titles and speeds of the past nine pitches … Read more
Aaron Judge hit it out of the park again. A one-of-kind baseball card of Judge in his first professional season with the Yankees sold at auction for a staggering $838,750 on Friday. The 2013 Bowman Aaron Judge Superfractor 1/1 — depicting the eventual Yankees captain just after he was selected by the team in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft — … Read more
An exercising construction worker abs-olutely stole the show during a college baseball game on Monday. Toward the end of the Cal Baptist vs. UCSB tilt at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium in Santa Barbara, cameras captured a crane operator getting in a quick workout at the top of his heavy duty machine. The man – wearing a … Read more
While the New Orleans Pelicans gave the Lakers all they could handle in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, a real pelican wreaked havoc on a college baseball game some 120 miles north. As UC Santa Barbara was facing off with Loyola Marymount University at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium in Isla Vista, an enormous pelican flew onto … Read more
Farmers Almanac spring forecast: “A deep, dark and foreboding sky lingers in the approaching MLB atmosphere. Fans are advised to be prepared to take cover and shelter in basements or whatever room is closest to the ground to discourage jumping from windows to escape the scene.” Another season of telecasts — free TV, cable TV, … Read more
The Worldwide Leader has figured out how to fill the empty program spot left by the departure of “Sunday Night Baseball.” ESPN will debut “Women’s Sports Sundays” this summer featuring the top games in the WNBA and the NWSL, with the series running nine weeks and including 12 primetime games. The new programming will include … Read more
Mookie Betts has pulled out of the World Baseball Classic, revealing this week his pregnant wife “said she’d divorce me” if he opted to play in the 2026 tournament instead of being by her side. Betts, 33, told Adin Ross on the internet star’s livestream Wednesday that he intended to suit up for the U.S. … Read more
“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