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Baseball great Gaylord Perry, a two-time Cy Young winner, dies at 84

The Baseball Hall of Famer, a master of the spitball, made history as the first player to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues. Perry pitched for eight major-league teams from 1962 until 1983.

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Big, green and furry: The origin stories of this year's World Series mascots

One's a bird from the Galapagos. The other's from outer space.

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Jack Flaherty shines, Albert Pujols hits No. 701 as Cardinals clip Pirates, 2-1

ST. LOUIS — While Jack Flaherty had an impressive audition Friday night not only for a postseason roster spot but a chance to be in the rotation in next weekend's first round, Albert Pujols took another step toward the National Baseball Hall of Fame, not that his route wasn’t already…

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Vahe Gregorian: Buck’s HOF call inspires NLBM campaign that could be catalyst for Bob Kendrick’s dream

Friday was another beautiful day at, and for, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. So much so that even by his gleaming standards NLBM president Bob Kendrick radiated a certain surplus glow still basking in Buck O’Neil’s long-awaited induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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It’s official at long last: Buck O’Neil takes his place at Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

Buck O’Neil, the beloved late Negro Leagues baseball and Kansas City icon, was officially enshrined on Sunday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

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Vahe Gregorian: On Buck O’Neil’s HOF induction at last: ‘His spirit is going to fill up the valley’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Quite belatedly, Buck O’Neil on Sunday will be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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Jackie Robinson’s legacy: ‘He changed a country,’ and is still relevant 75 years later

PHILADELPHIA — When Jackie Robinson stepped out on to Ebbets Field in 1947 in the alabaster Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, “American apartheid flashed into view like wicked lightning,” in the words of author Roger Kahn. A tempest of change had arrived and its impact would be felt across America extending way…

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