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Professional baseball would so well to avoid politics, assessed Miracle Mets major league baseball legend Ron Swoboda.

Baseball has returned to South Korea, but it certainly did not start in a way that anyone would recognize.

Trump on Wednesday at the White House said he was eager to see sporting events return to normal in America. “I’d like to see the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium,” he said.

Taiwan became the first country worldwide to kick-off the baseball season on Sunday following the outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, as new cases of the pandemic begin to plateau. 

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will not schedule any more advertising on its platforms promoting music artist Roger Waters.

TEL AVIV, Israel — As a baseball-crazed kid growing up in Miami, Danny Valencia dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. The thought of heading to the Olympics, for a foreign country no less, never crossed his mind.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Saturday attempted to use the record-breaking, multimillion-dollar contract between the New York Yankees and pitcher Gerrit Cole to push for increased teacher salaries.

Leftists on social media blew a collective fuse after Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki donned a MAGA hat during the White House’s welcoming ceremony for the World Series champions.

President Donald Trump congratulated the Washington Nationals early Thursday after the team won the World Series in Houston against the Astros.

President Donald Trump welcomed the winners of the Little League World Series on stage at a “Keep America Great Again” rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Friday evening.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is recovering from his heart attack in stride, according to video clips that surfaced on social media on Thursday, showing the presidential hopeful swinging a bat with his grandchildren.

Youth sports officials and referees are quitting their jobs at record rates because of parents’ poor behavior during games, reports said. 

Led by a decline in football for the fifth straight year, participation in high school sports dropped in 2018-19 for the first time in 30 years, according to an annual survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations.

A high fly ball bounced off the head of one South Korean baseball player right into the glove of his teammate for an out, putting the term “heads up” a whole new light.

The Las Vegas Aviators have a special feature for their team, a dog trained to run out and retrieve bats dropped by players at the plate. But on Tuesday, a mean old umpire got mercilessly booed by the fans after refusing to let Finn the dog do his job.

Combat pilot, Congressman, Central Intelligence Director, Ambassador, Vice President, and President. George H.W. Bush’s life was a full one to say the least. A loving husband, father, and grandfather, Bush did it all.

No one likes getting tagged out. Getting tagged out is insulting, it’s humiliating, and it marks the final act in a failed bid to do that most difficult of things in sports, hit safely.

[LANGUAGE WARNING] When asked just hours after his Boston Red Sox took down the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games to win the World Series, relief pitcher Heath Hembree said he is definitely going to visit the president at the

In reaction Monday to the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend and President Donald Trump’s behavior, MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski accused the president of using a tweet about the World Series to “send

The left-wing ProPublica took to Twitter to solicit the public’s help in uncovering SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s baseball buddies.

San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt finished second to Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar in MLB’s Final Vote for the National League All-Star team, and he said Russia may have interfered with the election. “First off, I just

In a preview of an interview with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap, former MLB slugger Sammy Sosa danced around the question of whether or not he took performance-enhancing drugs, instead saying he “never tested positive.” Sosa was named in a 2009 New York

A Mattapoisett, MA, high school baseball coach feels “sick” after watching his team travel 88 miles to Notre Dame Cristo Rey to win 82-0, setting a new state record for margin of victory.

To protect their students from mass-shooters, a Pennsylvania school district spent $1,800 to arm all 500 of its teachers with a tiny, 16-inch baseball bat.

President Donald Trump met with the 2017 World Series Champions Houston Astros on Monday, but he also welcomed heroes who helped Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey to the White House.

Texas Wesleyan University fired its baseball coach after he refused to recruit players from Colorado because of the state’s permissive marijuana laws.

A Venezuelan baseball star has died from a bout of pneumonia after failing to receive adequate medical treatment amid the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis.

An agent for Major League Baseball was suspended and fired after allegations emerged that he used a hidden camera to record players using a shower in his home, a report says.

A new Gallup poll finds that the game of football is still America’s most popular sport, but that its popularity has slipped six points since 2007.

Shortly after winning a ring Wednesday night, Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa gave another ring away.

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Nick Pivetta showed Monday night he did not need his glove to make an out on a batted ball. Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes laced a comebacker 106 mph right at Pivetta and the ball went

In wake of the “Racism Is As American As Baseball” banner that was unfurled at Fenway Park this week, retired Boston Red Sox slugger David “Big Papi” Ortiz said he is not a fan of political statements being made at

“God Bless America” saved Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price from getting ejected Sunday as his team squared off with the New York Mets. At the end of the top half of the seventh inning, the Reds skipper left the dugout after second

Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame outfielder Jim Rice slammed New York Yankees starting pitcher CC Sabathia after the pitcher complained about the Red Sox testing his 37-year-old, 300-pound body and surgically repaired right knee in the first inning by bunting for

Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera threw some haymakers Thursday as his team hosted the New York Yankees, sparking a benches-clearing brawl between the two teams. Right before the fight, Yankees pitcher Tommy Kahnle was ejected for throwing a pitch

Wednesday’s ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park did not go as planned for one unlucky photographer. Boston Red Sox fan and Ewing’s sarcoma survivor Jordan Leandre, a high school pitcher, threw the first pitch way over the catcher’s head and right