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Josh Hamilton's contract situation most unique

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 3:36pm

You have to hand it to Josh Hamilton. While he's constantly on guard against his personal demons, he somehow still seems to be exactly what we want all athletes to be -- a big kid playing a child's game.

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Bill Plaschke: Pujols says it's about wins, not homers

Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 12:28am

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Waiting for Albert ...

Baseball's best power hitter strolls to the plate at 7:17 p.m. Thursday and a stadium grows silent. A dozen games ago those fans were standing, but they have long since been left hanging, so now they are plopped on their hands and stilling their hearts.

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The history behind Fenway Park 100 years later

Michael K. Bohn McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 7:09pm

The Red Sox Nation is about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park, the oldest Major League Baseball stadium in use. The Boston landmark, which hosted its first American League game on April 20, 1912, has since achieved a status in America sports history unrivaled among inanimate legends. Praise for Fenway runs the gamut from literary understatement to wry humor to dead-on accuracy.

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Hall of Fame offers Jamie Moyer internship

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 5:14pm

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Jamie Moyer might have a new gig coming -- if he ever stops pitching, that is.

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McNulty: What's become of Jackie Robinson's legacy?

Ray McNulty Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 3:55pm

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- The numbers from opening day 2012 aren't yet available, so we don't know if the trend is continuing.

We don't know if the percentage of American blacks playing Major League Baseball continues to dwindle, wallowing at a single-digit level that concerns the suits running the game.

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Zito gets rare chance to play with rock band Train

Janie McCauley The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 2:56pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Zito and Matt Cain accepted the mic from Train lead singer Patrick Monahan and belted out Journey's "Don't Stop Believin"' as a couple of thousand fans cheered and sang right along.

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Gaylord Perry helps ex-teammate with cancer

Janie McCauley The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 7:47pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ernie Bowman received his devastating diagnosis last summer: Stage IV prostate cancer with a prognosis of two months to live.

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Harper fine-turning skills in triple-A

Marc Narducci The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 10:58pm

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Bryce Harper is one of the few minor-league players who are major attractions. Despite being in only his second year of professional ball, the Washington Nationals farmhand creates the suspicion that he will be playing at Citizens Bank Park, Citi Field, and other major-league venues before the season is over.

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An all-night game for workers at Dodger Stadium

David Wharton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 5:49pm

LOS ANGELES -- The game ran late, as night games sometimes do, so it was nearly 11 p.m. when the Dodgers finally cleared out of their locker room.

With the final players heading for home, clubhouse attendants began gathering crumpled uniforms in a cart. They started two big washing machines going in a room beside the showers.

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McNulty: When did every mistake become fatal?

Ray McNulty Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 6:21pm

When, exactly, did we get here?

When did America arrive at a place where every wrong choice of words, every poorly expressed thought that someone else finds offensive must result in somebody losing their livelihood?

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Bees begin 2012 PCL season on road

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 12:26am

SALT LAKE CITY -- With the 2012 Pacific Coast League season set to start, the Salt Lake Bees and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim announced 22 members of the Bees' roster expected to open the season on Thursday at Tacoma.

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Touching all the bases . . . story lines and players to watch for Baseball 2012

Tod Palmer McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 7:02pm

FIVE STORYLINES TO WATCH

1. Zapping wildness from the wild card

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Phil Sheridan: Dodgers set a different kind of standard

Phil Sheridan The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 3:04pm

Magic Johnson is a savvy businessman, and he leads the group that just spent more than $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers.

So which of these things is true?

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Hunter's importance to Angels isn't lost on teammates

Mike DiGiovanna The Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 7:33pm

TEMPE, Ariz. -- To Angels center fielder Peter Bourjos, Torii Hunter is "the rock, the leader" of the club, a right fielder he looks up to "like he's my dad, almost."

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Barry Larkin elected to baseball Hall of Fame

Ronald Blum The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 4:55pm

NEW YORK -- Barry Larkin was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Monday with plenty of room to spare.

The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop was chosen on 495 of 573 ballots (86 percent) in voting announced by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, well above the necessary 75 percent. Larkin was on the ballot for the third time after falling 75 votes short last year.

He will be inducted July 22 in Cooperstown along with the late Ron Santo, elected last month by the Veterans Committee.

"I am so humbled by the experience and so excited about being the newest member of the Hall of Fame," Larkin said on a conference call.

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