The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres kick off the regular Major League Baseball season on Wednesday, March 20, at 6:05 a.m. ET. The early time may seem a bit out of left field, so here’s the deal: This season starts with a two-game Seoul Series taking place in Seoul, South Korea. This is … Read more
I’ve seen enough: the prize for the best use of public domain Mickey Mouse goes to the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. For its public domain theme night, the minor league baseball team will wear jerseys made entirely of iconic images that are no longer protected by copyright: Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” King Kong, and the earliest … Read more
Brielle Biermann is ready to start her next chapter. The 27-year-old daughter of Kim Zolciak took to Instagram on Monday to share that she and Billy Seidl are engaged. “Forever with you,” Brielle captioned a series of photos of Billy’s proposal. In the pics, the minor league baseball player is down on one knee in … Read more
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Who needs that Oklahoma radio station when you’ve got the Savannah Bananas! The hugely popular team (baseball’s version of the Harlem Globetrotters) blasted Beyoncé’s new country track “Texas Hold ‘Em” on Friday night in Arizona for one of their many choreographed dances. You can see the team — led by their pitcher in a yellow cowboy … Read more
The BBWAA has elected only two players to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the last three years, but that trend is likely to change with Tuesday’s announcement of Cooperstown’s latest class. After David Ortiz (2022) and Scott Rolen (2023) got announcement night all to themselves in recent years, a strong crop of first-year candidates, … Read more
TOKYO — Governor Yuriko Koike was asked Tuesday to stop a disputed $2.45 billion project to convert a Tokyo park district, renowned for its rows of 100-year-old ginkgo trees, into a largely commercial area anchored around three skyscrapers. The plan for the Jingu Gaien area calls for razing a famous baseball stadium where Babe Ruth … Read more
There is a strange superstition among MLB players that involves urinating on themselves, and Moises Alou and Jorge Posada are among the MLB legends whose names have come up in connection. It’s designed to make the bat easier to grip as opposed to batting gloves, which some players do not use. Batting gloves are pretty … Read more
Travis Scott has jumped ahead of the line to get Tom Brady baseball cards. With ‘Brady Day’ approaching on the 12th of December, in honor of the number he wore during his playing career, Topps is releasing collectibles with the quarterback wearing a baseball uniform. Michael Rubin, owner of Fanatics, the parent company of Topps, … Read more
A 6-year-old boy died two months after he was allegedly attacked with a baseball bat by a neighbor, the Texas child’s father said. Jeremy Diaz, badly injured in the Sept. 11 attack at his home in Georgetown, died Tuesday, Nov. 14, Arturo Diaz said in a GoFundMe. “Early this morning I was checking on him … Read more
Philippine men’s baseball team. PHOTO/ Baseball Federation of Asia Facebook MANILA, Philippines–The Philippine men’s baseball team was eliminated from super round contention after being dealt a 2-0 loss by host China on Monday in the Hangzhou Asian Games at Shaoxing Baseball and Softball Center. The Filipino batters couldn’t capitalize on a scoring situation before allowing … Read more