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Boston Globe - BOSTON -- His reputation, his clean-cut image, his stature as one of baseball's good guys, they all took a hit. And Paul Byrd, the soft-tossing pitcher who prides himself on command and control, couldn't stop it. Just hours before Game 7 of the AL ...

CBS Sportsline - Boston is 5-5 all-time in decisive Game 7s. The Red Sox were already the only team to have rallied twice from a 3-1 deficit to win the LCS, in 1986 and '04. It was the first winner-take-all in the baseball postseason since the ...

Newsday - By the time Torre walked away from the best job of his baseball career, he not only had restored the franchise's winning tradition but had done so with a humanity that transcended the sport and raised his stature to father figure among players and ...

ESPN.com - Regardless of how they got there, the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Red Sox will be facing off for baseball's biggest prize: a World Series championship. The Red Sox have been here before, while the young Rockies franchise is making its first trip ...

Boston Globe - The Red Sox are the best team in baseball," said William MacKinnon, a Hudson, N.H., resident in the Cask 'n Flagon, as if he never had any doubt. Officers ringed the field before the ninth inning, after the Red Sox exploded for 6 runs in the eighth ...

Boston Globe - This must have been what it felt like in the early days of Fenway when the Royal Rooters ruled and the Red Sox were regular hosts of baseball's autumnal showcase. From 1915 through 1918, the Sox won three World Series. They did not win again until ...

New York Post - The pitcher would not say if he's still using HGH, a substance banned by Major League Baseball in 2005. The report, in the San Francisco Chronicle, stated Byrd bought $25,000 worth of HGH and syringes from 2002-05. "I have a pituitary tumor," Byrd ...

New York Post - Girardi is organized and heavily involved in the data gathering that is a large part of baseball in the 21st century. Like Mattingly, he knows the brutal Yankees landscape and understands what is expected. He turned down the Orioles' job this past ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Two thoughts crossed Todd Helton's mind when he awoke to a snowstorm yesterday. "Good hunting weather," the Colorado Rockies first baseman said. "We don't have to go out on the field and practice today. That was my only other thought. It will be a ...

Seattle Times - ST. LOUIS — Tony La Russa tended to his many pets on the West Coast for a week or so, and made up his mind: He wanted to keep managing. Now, he's hoping the St. Louis Cardinals can make an equally quick decision on hiring a general manager. La ...