SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Octavio Dotel, who pitched for 13 major league teams in a 15-year career and won a World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals, was among...
Years of baseball hardship will end Tuesday afternoon for either the Yeshiva University Maccabees or the Lehman College Lightning. Yeshiva, a Modern Orthodox Jewish school, has dropped 99 consecutive contests,...
One year after Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was exonerated by the federal government and Major League Baseball, one of his former teammates is still under investigation for illegal...
I spent a recent Sunday in Norwalk, watching 12-year-olds play baseball on a field nestled between a juvenile prison and two sets of railway tracks. It was a hot, dry...
In his playing days, Eric Gagné’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer, and 2003 Cy Young Award winner, joked with a laugh. Which...
The 2025 Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is struggling and heading towards the sports’ graveyard....
Peter Gammons is synonymous with baseball on ESPN. Never mind that he hasn’t worked there in more than 15 years. Gammons––like Dick Vitale and college basketball, or Chris Berman and...
The calendar hasn’t yet turned to April, but one of the more memorable moments of the Major League Baseball season has already taken place. New York Yankees backup catcher J.C....
It’s a great day to be a sports fan. Not only does the Sweet 16 kick off at 7:09 p.m. ET when No. 6 BYU and No. 2 Alabama square...
March 27 is Opening Day, when hope springs eternal. For at least one day — Opening Day — every Major League Baseball team is a contender for October. The ghosts...
