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Pitch clocks and a ban on defensive shifts coming to MLB in 2023 as part of major rule changes

Major League Baseball announced a huge set of rule changes on Friday, which will go into effect for the 2023 season.

Tribune News Service

The Good, the Bad and the Meh of MLB’s Rule Changes

Regular readers of this newsletter know I disagree with Rob Manfred frequently. His handling of MLB labor issues is callous, and at best, he is an awkward public speaker. His treatment of minor leaguers is inhumane, and he has mishandled multiple baseball cheating scandals. For all of these ...

Sports Illustrated

Florida woman named Tupac Shakur accused of assaulting a man with baseball bat outside of a hospital

Ms Shakur, 34, is accused of using a baseball bat to assault a man sitting outside a hospital

The Independent UK

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The Queen and US Presidents: From dancing with Gerald Ford to watching baseball with George Bush

The monarch played a pivotal role over the decades in the UK's relationship with the leaders of one of its closest allies.

Daily Record

White Sox must ‘give it the same energy’ if manager Tony La Russa returns

Miguel Cairo’s effect on 6-3 run is Sox’ question of the hour. “Sometimes you get your back pinned against the wall and you see what you’re made of,” Kendall Graveman said. “I just know we’re winning baseball games.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Everything You Need to Know About MLB’s Rule Changes

Answering the questions behind the league’s efforts to improve pace of play next season.

Sports Illustrated

Grown man callously snatches fly ball from children at Nationals baseball game

Virginia mom Gina Hilliard tells The Independent her 10-year-old daughter was ‘very upset’ by the man’s actions

The Independent UK

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Greg Cote's Thursday night NFL pick

Basketball and hockey are around the corner. Baseball and soccer are steaming toward their playoffs. College football got a jump start. No matter. All curtsy and step aside now, please. King Sport is back!

Miami Herald

Jerry Seinfeld is blaming Timmy Trumpet for the Mets’ collapse to the Braves in NL East

Let's check in on Mets fans ....

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mets field reporter hilariously got hounded for a foul ball that he caught during broadcast

Vultures!

USA Today Sports Media Group

Fall 2022 Broadway preview, part 2: Neil Diamond, ‘Some Like It Hot’ and the return of ‘Take Me Out’

NEW YORK — Diamonds, baseball and ghosts will take over Broadway as the fall season starts. Here is part two of the Daily News’ 2022 Broadway season preview:

Tribune News Service

Jesus Christ was first person to play cricket and baseball, historians bizarrely claim

It has bizarrely been claimed that Jesus Christ was the first person ever to play cricket after a manuscript from a previously unseen Gospel was unearthed

Daily Mirror

'I'm going to bash the f--- out of you now': Cameron Welsh guilty of baseball bat attacks, head stomping

In the space of a few days in June last year, Cameron Reginald Welsh brutally bashed three men in three separate attacks at New Lambton, Woodberry and Beresfield, stomping on one man's head and repeatedly striking two others with a baseball bat.

Newcastle Herald

Former manager Joe Maddon repeats frustration in how Angels’ front office handled analytics

Former Angels manager Joe Maddon continued on his crusade against the way analytics have flooded the game of baseball, including expressing frustration in the way he and the Angels front office worked together before he was fired in June.

The Orange County Register

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More than half of minor league baseball players have voted to unionize

Most minor league players make less than the federal poverty line. The Major League Baseball Players Association has asked MLB to voluntarily recognize the unionizing efforts.

Tribune News Service

Tom Krasovic: Padres can't expect to hold wild-card lead playing like this

The Padres can take comfort in knowing they still lead the race for the third wild card that Major League Baseball adopted this year, despite their offense stinking up Petco Park once again Monday afternoon in a 5-0 loss to a loose Diamondbacks team.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLBPA asks baseball management to accept union for minor leaguers

The MLBPA, which reached its first collective bargaining agreement for major leaguers in 1968, launched the minor league unionization drive on Aug. 28.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Shaikin: 'That was absolutely deliberate.' Focus at Jackie Robinson Museum is off the field.

NEW YORK — There was a time, and not so long ago, when you could ask a major league player about Jackie Robinson and get a shrug in return. The league retired his number in 1997, on the 50th anniversary of his debut, with President Clinton in attendance. That made…

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Chicago Sun-Times

Taking a deep statistical dive into Dylan Cease’s gem

Baseball by the numbers: One-hitter earned a game score of 90, tied for 5th in the majors this season

The Conversation

America's next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball

When the Major League Baseball Players Association sent union authorization cards to approximately 5,000 minor league players in an attempt to unionize them, I was both surprised and not surprised at all.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ben Frederickson: Even NL fundamentalists have to admit Pujols and Cardinals have made DH a hit

I know it’s impolite to say, ‘I told you so.’

The Guardian - US

MLB’s Art Shires: hitter, peacock, boaster, boxer and accused killer

The Texan was a hothead who beat up his own manager, pursued an off-season fighting career and was implicated in the deaths of two people

Tribune News Service

Andrew Benintendi may miss rest of season with broken wrist

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Andrew Benintendi was diagnosed with a broken hook of the hamate bone. The Yankees left fielder is not ready to rule out a comeback before the end of the season, but the typical rehab for baseball players with this is at least three to four weeks…

Tribune News Service

Gene Collier: Boy, will Albert Pujols miss PNC Park

PITTSBURGH — By next Sunday, if it hasn't already, the looming launch of the NFL season will have fully swallowed what remains of our baseball consciousness around here.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball quiz: The quizmaster takes you to school

These classes are sure to teach you something you didn’t know about baseball.

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