The talk in spring training wasn't how good the Detroit Tigers would be this season; it was how many games it would take for them to win the World Series. It could have been preseason hype gone awry, or it could have been genuine infatuation with how deep their lineup was. But with all the bouquets being tossed the Tigers' way - including some in the preseason predictions of this newspaper - it seemed a foregone conclusion the team at least would make the playoffs.
Said Salles says he was just trying to protect his wife and property when he used an aluminum baseball bat to bash the head of a man trying to break into his home.
Terry Tiffee doubled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the seventh, Brian Barden homered and tied the game with his seventh-inning double and the U.S. baseball team rallied from a four-run deficit to beat Canada 5-4 in Olympic baseball Saturday.
Two Ogden neighbors got into a fight after a minor league baseball game that ended with one them biting off a part of the other's ear. The two men had returned home from the Ogden Raptors baseball game late Wednesday when police said one man apparently offended the other with a comment.
The New York Yankees have fired two scouts under investigation in a probe of possible kickbacks from contracts with Latin American players, The Associated Press has learned.
I encountered an old literary friend recently, and you can, too. His name is Roger Kahn, and he promptly reaffirmed his status as one of the best baseball writers ever to apply pen, typewriter or word processor to the erstwhile national pastime.
Lee Jong-wook hit a sacrifice fly with one out and South Korea answered the Americans' ninth-inning rally with one of its own, beating the United States 8-7 on Wednesday night in a thrilling Olympic baseball opener.
