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Red Sox CEO talks baseball and politics
Baseball fans of different ages munched on buttery popcorn as they listened to Larry Lucchino, chief executive and president of the Boston Red Sox, discuss the relationship between baseball and politics yesterday afternoon at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kennedy School professor Graham T.
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New bats could change complexion of college baseball
When players on college baseball teams across the country step up to the plate next season, they'll be gripping a new and relatively unfamiliar type of bat. Beginning Jan.
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Column: Money can’t stop the Rays
The Major League Baseball season ended Sunday, and the Divisional Series begins tomorrow afternoon. Eight teams are still standing after 162 games, and one of them just won the American League East for the second time in three seasons — and it isn’t the Yankees or the Red Sox.
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One of Cal’s oldest sports, baseball team dropped among cuts
For years, the Cal baseball team has begged the athletic department to purchase lights for Evans Diamond. That, sadly for the Bears, isn't a problem anymore.
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Column: How baseball helped heal New York
On Jan. 14, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from the commissioner of baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. In it, Landis asked the president's opinion on the continuation of Major League Baseball games in light of America’s entry into World War II.
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Lipari named Youngstown State U. pitching coach, recruiting coordinator
Dan Lipari, who spent last season as a volunteer assistant coach for the Youngstown State U. baseball team, was recently named assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Replacing his older brother, Tom, who took a pitching coach position with U. Pittsburgh, Lipari will fulfill similar duties.
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Column: A perfect Major League Baseball
In a perfect world, the MLB that Americans know and love would fail to exist. That is because, in a perfect world, there would be a salary cap, additional playoff teams, manager challenges, and two leagues, aligned by location, that both use a designated hitter.
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Florida State’s McGee puts pros on hold to handle unfinished business
College baseball’s best two-way player is coming back to school. Florida State’s Mike McGee—this past season’s John Olerud Award winner, which honors the nation’s best two-way player—put his expected Major League career on hold. The Port St.
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Former Minutemen sign minor league contracts
U. Massachusetts baseball players Nick Serino and Bryan Leigh signed with major league squads this summer, after concluding their careers as Minutemen.
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