Bobby Bragan, nicknamed “Mr. Baseball” and considered Fort Worth’s ambassador of the sport, died Thursday night. He was 92.
Bragan became a part of Fort Worth baseball in the 1940s when he joined the Fort Worth Cats as a player/manager, and his outgoing personality, positive outlook on life and deep passion for baseball kept him in [...]
NEW YORK — Mark McGwire finally came clean, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball’s home run record in 1998.
McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade. During a 20-minute telephone interview shortly afterward, his voice repeatedly cracked.
“It’s very emotional, [...]
Whitey HerzogINDIANAPOLIS — Whitey Herzog and Doug Harvey were elected by a Hall of Fame Veterans Committee on managers and umpires, but a separate committee for executives and pioneers did not select anyone for induction into the Cooperstown shrine.
The committees’ decisions were announced Monday morning by Jane Forbes Clark, the Hall of Fame’s chairman of [...]
NEW YORK — This was the ultimate dream that the Yankees waited so long to achieve, as they clustered at the center of their magnificent new cathedral and celebrated the perfect ending to the inaugural season of Yankee Stadium.
Finally — and forever — a 27th World Series title is now theirs.
In what may have been [...]
A loss away from a winter’s worth of golf outings, Utley extended the Philadelphia Phillies’ season at least two more days Monday, belting a pair of home runs to lead an 8-6 victory over the Yankees and send the World Series back to New York for Game 6 on Wednesday.
Utley got the Phillies started with [...]
Yankees lead series, 2-1 with Saturday win
PHILADELPHIA — Andy Pettitte’s biggest moment through the first five innings in Game 3 of the World Series on Saturday came at the plate.
With one out in the fifth and the Yankees trailing the Phillies by a run, the veteran lefty singled on the first pitch he saw [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Powered by Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth and all those other big bats, the Philadelphia Phillies are headed back to the World Series.
Werth hit two home runs, Shane Victorino and Pedro Feliz also connected and the defending champions beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to win their [...]
Will the Angels be jumping today?
It’s been some postseason for the Yankees, who look to punch a ticket to the World Series Thursday with a victory over the Angels in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, scheduled for 7:57 p.m. ET on FOX.
The Yankees have a 3-1 series lead, their only postseason loss [...]
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Lost amid the New York Yankees’ 2-0 series lead and the Los Angeles Angels’ mistakes was the fact that the Yankees were having troubles of their own.
They had more Monday and eventually walked off with a loss, absorbing a 5-4, 11-inning defeat and allowing the Angels to regain some playoff life.
In Game [...]
PHILADELPHIA — After the fifth inning Sunday night, the Phillie Phanatic delighted the bundled-up crowd at Citizens Bank Park by knocking out a Los Angeles Dodgers fan in a fake boxing match.
The skit played out in front of the Dodgers’ dugout, where the mismatch presented only a temporary distraction from the blowout unfolding in front [...]
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