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Baseball Notes: Longtime exec Lee MacPhail dies

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 9 2012, 9:00pm CST

Lee MacPhail, 95, the longtime baseball executive who ruled in the celebrated Pine Tar case and later became part of the only father-son Hall of Fame pairing with his father, Larry, has died. He was the oldest Hall of Famer, and he ...

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4 hours ago

Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success

Source: Baseball Think Factory  |   May 21 2013, 1:30am CDT

Boz pays homage to the gritty, gutsy, scrappy, first place 2013 underdog Yankees: Perhaps for the first time in their history, the Yankees now epitomize exactly the kind of team that always used to try to beat them: a gr ...

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16 hours ago

Aardsma signs Minor League deal with Mets

Source: MLB.com  |   May 20 2013, 2:03pm CDT

The Mets signed right-hander David Aardsma to a Minor League deal and assigned him to Triple-A Las Vegas on Monday. Aardsma, 31, opened the year with Miami's Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans, and he went 1-0 ...

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27 weeks ago


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"Lee MacPhail was one of the great executives in baseball history and a Hall of Famer in every sense, both personally and professionally ... His hallmarks were dignity, common sense, and humility. He was not only a remarkable league executive, but was a true baseball man."


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20 hours ago

Major League Baseball: American League Power Rankings, Week 8

Source: MassLive.com  |   May 20 2013, 9:22am CDT

The weather is heating up, and so are a number of American League baseball teams. It was a week that saw the teams that have been at or near the top of their divisions begin to solidify their positions. The American League East is begi ...

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22 hours ago

This Date In Baseball

Source: Kens5.com San Antonio  |   May 20 2013, 7:36am CDT

1926 — Earl Sheely of the Chicago White Sox hit three doubles and a home run against the Boston Red Sox. Sheely doubled in each of his last three at-bats the previous day to give him seven consecutive extra-base hits, tying a major ...

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Francisco Cervelli plans to resume baseball activity for mid-June as Yankees await his return

Source: NJ.com  |   May 19 2013, 5:07pm CDT

NEW YORK – Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli appeared in the team’s clubhouse shortly after Sunday’s game with Toronto was rained out. He has been in the city for the past week, he said, doing exercises as his broken right hand heals. Cervelli has a doc ...

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2 days ago

SUNDAY GRAVY: Joe Girardi working his magic with Yankees

Source: New Haven Register  |   May 18 2013, 7:31pm CDT

O.J. Simpson appeared in court earlier this week. Let’s hope his search for the real killers is going a little better than his search for the prison salad bar. ♦Managers often get too much credit when a baseball team succeed ...

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3 days ago

Banged-up Bombers just keep on rolling along

Source: New York Post  |   May 18 2013, 12:54am CDT

Someone once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. These 2013 Yankees have put a twist on that: They’re doing the same thing over and over, and the rest of us are expecting different r ...

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3 days ago

Yankees blitz Blue Jays 5-0

Source: Canoe  |   May 17 2013, 9:20pm CDT

New York Yankees batter Ichiro Suzuki runs to first base but is thrown out while playing the Toronto Blue Jays in the third inning of their MLB American League baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, May 17, 2013. (REUTERS) NEW YORK - Few ...

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3 days ago

Should Major League Baseball Players Get Payed This Much Money?

Source: Sports Networker  |   May 17 2013, 5:31pm CDT

In 2010 the average salary in Major League Baseball surpassed $3 million for the first time. The 912 players in the big leagues before rosters expanded in September of 2010 averaged $3,014,572. The average rose 0.6 percent from the previous year’s $2,996 ...

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