Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Baseball

It's a new record! A Micky Mantle card sold for $12.6 million

The price tag is the most anyone has paid for a piece of sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.

WEKU

Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar

A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books Sunday as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia

The Independent UK

Minor-leaguers and their advocates hope Congress will revoke MLB’s antitrust exemption. Here’s how they are pushing for change.

CHICAGO — Rob Manfred’s response to a question last month about minor league salaries before the All-Star Game took off when the Major League Baseball commissioner said “I reject the premise that they’re not paid a living wage.”

Chicago Tribune

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Ichiro Suzuki’s induction into the Mariners’ Hall of Fame was a perfect celebration of the MLB legend

Ichiro deserves ALL the flowers.

USA Today Sports Media Group

In Old Timer’s Day surprise, Mets retire Willie Mays’ No. 24: ‘New York was a magical place to play baseball’

NEW YORK — On a day when Mets fans, players and coaches old and young gathered to celebrate Old Timers’ Day, the team made a surprise announcement.

Tribune News Service

Paul Sullivan: It’s a bizarro season in Chicago, where contending White Sox get booed and optimism grows for Cubs

CHICAGO — With a little more than one month remaining in this bizarro baseball season in Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox have somehow managed to switch identities.

Chicago Tribune

Baseball quiz: Going to the dogs

This quiz is in honor of all the canines out there during their time of the year — the dog days of summer.

Chicago Sun-Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

In 1982, a team from Washington won the Little League World Series and became famous. Forty years later, here is what the players learned.

SEATTLE — Pitcher Cody Webster didn't realize the magnitude of what he and his friends had accomplished until he saw the front page of a Chicago newspaper during an airport layover.

Tribune News Service

For Dodgers’ Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman, playing every day is part of the deal

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman, working stiff? The moniker would hardly seem to apply to a guy who makes $27 million a year, flies charter, stays in five-star hotels and receives $100 per diem on the road while playing baseball for a living.

Los Angeles Times

Julio Rodríguez Is the Future of Seattle Sports

The J-Rod Show is staying in Seattle! This afternoon, it was reported that Julio Rodríguez and the Mariners were nearing a massive extension, with a ton of specific details that affect the overall terms of the deal. MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez was first to report the extension was happening, ...

Sports Illustrated

Julio Rodriguez, Mariners finalizing massive, long-term contract

SEATTLE — Since the day he signed as a 16-year-old out of the Dominican Republic, the Mariners have known they have something special in Julio Rodriguez.

Tribune News Service

Family of man killed after row with squeegee workers to sue Baltimore and officials, lawyers say

BALTIMORE — The family of the baseball bat-wielding man shot dead during a confrontation with a group of squeegee workers in downtown Baltimore last month will sue the city for millions of dollars, claiming officials neglected to enforce laws that would’ve prevented the fatal encounter, attorneys for the family announced…

Tribune News Service

Oneil Cruz is 6ft 7in and can blast a baseball 122mph. But can he play?

Pirates rookie Oneil Cruz is already setting StatCast records but struggling at the plate. Does the 6ft 7in shortstop have what it takes to be baseball’s next star?

The Guardian - US

The 'drunk', swaggering 'idiot' who robbed two men armed with a baseball bat... because he 'couldn't be a***d not having money'

'Do you want this wrapped around your head?', he spat at one of his victims

Manchester Evening News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

In first taste of minor league baseball, Orioles top pick Jackson Holliday adjusting to life as a pro

SALISBURY, Md. — Twenty-three years ago, when Matt Holliday was 19 years old, the future All-Star outfielder found himself at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, playing for the Asheville Tourists. That was at the onset of Holliday’s career, and he marked that series against the Delmarva Shorebirds with a…

Los Angeles Times

Bill Plaschke: Chasing record wins, red-hot Dodgers need to play it cool

LOS ANGELES — It feels weird issuing this plea to a baseball team bullying its way toward historic ground, but, sorry, somebody has to say it.

Los Angeles Times

Now pitching NIL deals: Suspended Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer

LOS ANGELES — The proposal that landed this week before several dozen NCAA athletes was fairly typical: Would you be interested in promoting a product and making money for it?

Sports Illustrated

Most Little Leaguers Dream of the Big Leagues. He Dreamed of Dentistry

When he played in the 1956 Little League World Series, he told SI that his goal wasn’t MLB. Here’s what happened.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Albert Pujols surprised a young Cardinals fan by accepting his request for a jersey exchange

You LOVE to see it.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Shane McClanahan struck out Mike Trout with a silly 100 mph pitch that looked like a wiffle ball

Are we sure this wasn't a wiffle ball?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Seattle’s George Kirby made some wild MLB history with his first 24 pitches against the Nationals

What an incredible way to start a game.

Tribune News Service

Orioles bullpen falters behind Spenser Watkins, bats fall silent until late in 5-3 loss to White Sox

BALTIMORE — In the aftermath of Félix Bautista’s heroics a day earlier, when the new Orioles closer worked a five-out save, manager Brandon Hyde admitted the bullpen is undergoing a feeling-out period. That’s what happens when All-Star Jorge López, the previous closer, is shipped off at the trade deadline, leaving…

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers release 2023 schedule: Here are 10 key dates

LOS ANGELES — The Astros and Yankees in Los Angeles. Mookie Betts returning to Fenway Park. And, for the first time since interleague play was introduced in 1997, the Dodgers facing all 29 other Major League Baseball clubs at least once over the course of the year.

Daily Mirror

Couple facing jail time after woman 'performs sex act' on man during baseball clash

Police have confirmed they are investigating an incident at a baseball game in Oakland, California this past weekend, after two fans seemed to take part in an alleged sex act

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | So Much for Kevin Durant’s Ultimatum

He’s staying in Brooklyn, but what comes next?

1 … 250 251 252 253

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.