There was a chill in the air and no place to park when Bryce Harper made his college baseball debut as a 17-year-old on Jan. 29, 2010.
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John Altobelli, the longtime baseball coach at Orange Coast College, was killed along with his wife and daughter in the helicopter crash Sunday that also took the lives of retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and Bryant’s daughter, Gianna.
Derek Jeter came within one vote of being a unanimous pick for the Hall of Fame while Larry Walker also earned baseball’s highest honor on Tuesday.
The Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal indirectly cost Mattress Mack $12 million. But the furniture store owner said he doesn’t feel cheated by his hometown team.
UNLV is investing about $1.6 million into its baseball and softball facilities. Both seasons begin next month.
Carlos Beltrán is out as manager of the New York Mets, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball.
He was the bench coach for the Houston Astros when they won the 2017 World Series and led Boston to the title the following year in his first season as manager.
Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired Monday after the pair were suspended by Major League Baseball for the team’s sign-stealing during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series title and during the 2018 season.
The Chicago Cubs and star third baseman Kris Bryant avoided arbitration, agreeing to an $18.6 million, one-year contract on Friday, a person familiar with the situation said.
Individual tickets for the 2020 Big League Weekend at Las Vegas Ballpark will go on sale Monday at noon, the team announced Tuesday.
Longtime newspaperman and Las Vegas resident Herb Jaffe covered Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game in 1956 for the Newark Star-Ledger. Larsen died Wednesday at age 90.
He was the unlikeliest of characters to attain what so many Hall of Famers couldn’t pull off in the fall classic.
Aviators president Don Logan said further discussion of major league baseball coming to Las Vegas is something to keep an eye on in 2020 and beyond.
Encarnación, who turns 37 on Jan. 7, has eight straight seasons with more than 30 homers.
Oakland needs to beat Denver as a 3½-point road underdog and needs the Texans to beat the Titans, Ravens to beat the Steelers and the Colts to beat the Jaguars.
