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Here comes the pitch, bargain-hungry baseball fans: Ticket-reselling sites are blooming with cut-rate deals for the regular season.

Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish ended months of speculation Thursday by saying he intends to make a move to Major League Baseball.

Matty Alou, once part of an all-Alou outfield for the San Francisco Giants with brothers Felipe and Jesus, died Thursday in his native Dominican Republic.

Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals had what is arguably the greatest hitting performance in a World Series game.

Moneyball is about baseball. But it is about baseball about as much as The Social Network is about building a website — not very much. And as someone who doesn’t like baseball, I absolutely loved it.

In his 30 years on this planet, Jeff Riddle has been an all-star baseball player, rock star, real estate magnate, spiritual seeker with a vow of celibacy, motivational speaker and, now, entrepreneur.

Christian Lopez was at the bottom of several piles during his days playing football at small St. Lawrence University.

The Peoria Chiefs, a Single-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, came up with their own way to mock LeBron James’ loss in the NBA finals. According to Chiefs spokesman Nathan Baliva, the minor league baseball team will hold a “LeBron James NBA Championship Replica Giveaway night” on Thursday. The joke is that the rings, just [...]

There’s nothing like a rain delay to empty the stands at a baseball game. Unless, of course, the players keep the entertainment alive by turning to medieval games. And when the Radford-High Point game was stuck in a weather delay on Sunday, that’s exactly what happened as Radford pitcher Mark Peterson gets on his horse [...]

I’m a baseball fan and a work/family advocate, so I loved the hoopla over the Texas Rangers starting pitcher Colby Lewis taking paternity leave to attend the birth of his daughter. High-profile fans denounced him in blogs and on the radio for “caring more about being a father than a starting pitcher.” Work/family advocates praised [...]