MLB Baseball

AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST

Jerry Jones wants desperately to restore the Dallas Cowboys' glory. Ditto Daniel Snyder with the Washington Redskins and Herb Simon of the Indiana Pacers. But like every other NFL and NBA owner, they picked the wrong sports in which to try to throw around their weight.

LOS ANGELES -- Used to be that baseball's sun rose -- and set -- in the East.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Prince Fielder doesn't just want to hit.

He wants to run.

All the way home.

"Baserunning is a big part of the game, and that's another part of my job," said Fielder, a former Ogden Raptor. "I think I should drive in runs, but if I have the opportunity to score, I like to, because you want everybody to score for you when you're hitting."

That's how a hitter gets RBI.

"So I think it's only fair to try to do the best I can to score for the guys behind me because I want the same in return," Fielder said.

Chris Carpenter pitches for a team once owned by America's largest brewery in a stadium that shares its name with a brand of beer. But should Carpenter wish to toast any of his victories this season he'll have to wait until he leaves the ballpark.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Joe Garagiola walked into the Giants' clubhouse, sat next to Willie Mays and reminisced about baseball in the 1950s. Garagiola's final weeks as a player were as a rarely used catcher on the '54 Giants, who swept Cleveland in the World Series.