| Baseball Notebook | M's offer Bowa coaching position http://seattletimes.nwsourc... Baseball Articles Seattle Times - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Trey Hillman has a daunting task: Lead the Kansas City Royals back to respectability. A winner in Japan and in the minor leagues with the Yankees, Hillman was hired to take over a long-struggling Royals team that hasn't been to ... |
| Whatever it is, they'll probably drink to that http://seattletimes.nwsourc... Baseball Articles Seattle Times - One Question About The Baseball Playoffs: Why is Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez allowed to walk onto the field every day wearing a batting helmet that looks like it's spent the past 10 years at the bottom of an outhouse? And Finally: 100 BNSF ... |
| Bond of brothers: Afflecks soak up the praise for "Gone Baby Gone" http://seattletimes.nwsourc... Baseball Articles Seattle Times - I played baseball until I was 15, but I wasn't good enough, really, so it was more appealing to go do summer musical that year, which was me and 19 girls. That was the first time I did theater. We had this amazing theater teacher who inspired ... |
| KEN DAVIDOFF'S 7TH-INNING STRETCH http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - To think he played on Team USA in last year's World Baseball Classic, and he probably was the least-known guy there. Pitcher of the Week: Josh Beckett, Red Sox. Just another example that it takes years to fully evaluate trades. Dumbest Comment of the ... |
| SHAKEUP IN THE BRONX: Three step into spotlight http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - It stands out more as time goes on in baseball and such a transition becomes less frequent. Willie Randolph got the Mets' managing job despite similar inexperience, although he had been coaching for 11 years to Mattingly's four. But then again ... |
| Job of Yankees manager will become revolving door http://www.newsday.com/spor... Baseball Articles Newsday - Over time, he wasn't just a manager but a myth, memorialized by television executives, particularly those of Fox and NBC Sports, for whom a mere baseball game is never enough. Torre's story was so TV-ready and compelling - his years of waiting for his ... |
| Quick turn http://www.freep.com/apps/p... Baseball Articles Detroit Free Press - He batted .304, shared conference player of the year honors and rediscovered his love for baseball. "He's as good a person as he is a player," Walton said in a telephone interview last week. "If my daughter was that age, I'd hope she'd find somebody ... |
| Email This Story http://www.freep.com/apps/p... Baseball Articles Detroit Free Press - With a smile, Marinelli even offers a story about a hidden-ball trick Kiffin once pulled with a rosin bag while managing youth baseball in Nebraska. "If you talk to him again," Marinelli says, "ask him about that." No, Marinelli and Kiffin didn't talk ... |
| Tap. Tap. Tap. Enough! http://www.oregonlive.com/s... Baseball Articles Oregonian - Major League Baseball had to work itself back from a work stoppage. The NHL still is trying to work itself back from a work stoppage. And each of them had capital in the bank. The National Lacrosse League does not, and while we sit and wait to see ... |
| Opinion: Focus on Dice-K in Game 7 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... Baseball Articles MSNBC - ... Matsuzaka's first season in the major leagues, after all, Matsuzaka has oscillated from good (for the first four months) to bad (for the last two), and now it just so happens that the most highly publicized international pitching pursuit in baseball ... |