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Mets to Host 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field

Major League Baseball will announce on Wednesday that next year’s All-Star Game will be held at Citi Field, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. The Mets were expected to be awarded the game after the Yankees hosted it in 2008, the last year the old Yankee …

Blue Jays sign Guerrero to minor league deal

Free agent slugger Vladimir Guerrero, a nine-time All-Star and former American League Most Valuable Player, has signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, the team said on Thursday. Guerrero, 37, has not played in the major leagues since hitting .290 with 13 home …

Pettitte will make Yankees return on Sunday

The Yankees plan to add Andy Pettitte to their active roster and have him return to the Major Leagues for Sunday's start against the Seattle Mariners. Pettitte, 39, completed his sixth outing at the Minor League level on Sunday for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in Rochester, N. …

Bryce Harper knows how to read the unwritten rules

Bryce Harper already had six hits, several highlight-reel catches and throws plus enough publicity to make a Hollywood heartthrob envious, but he wasn't a true big leaguer until Sunday night. At least that's the way Cole Hamels felt before the Philadelphia Phillies pitcher plant …

Babe Ruth's suburban Boston home for sale

The suburban Boston home where Babe Ruth lived after he had been sent to the New York Yankees is for sale, and the asking price is more than Ruth made in his entire playing career.

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Bryce Harper ready for Nationals Park debut

Bryce Harper arrived at Nationals Park this afternoon for his first home game in the majors, and he believed this is place he belongs. He felt more at ease in his first two major league games than all the minor league games before them. For a player with “big leagues” …

Bill Skowron, Slugger Who Helped Yankees Win 7 Pennants, Dies

Bill Skowron, the slugging first baseman who played on seven pennant-winning teams with the Yankees in the 1950s and early ’60s, died on Friday in Arlington Heights, Ill. He was 81. His death, at a hospital, resulted from congestive heart failure, although he had recent …

Delmon Young Arrested -- MLB Superstar Accused of Pulling a Mel Gibson | TMZ.com

Detroit Tigers star Delmon Young was arrested in NYC this morning after allegedly screaming a bunch of anti-Semitic slurs at a man in a yarmulke ... and then fighting another dude.

How the Washington Nationals became baseball's sleeping giant

Billy Beane knew what he had in Gio Gonzalez: a young, durable, lefthanded strikeout artist. If Beane, the Oakland A's general manager, was going to deal him last winter -- even in the midst of a fire sale in which virtually every player on the A's roster, save second baseman Jem …

Drew Sharp: Tigers' cool bats just as puzzling as umps' noncall | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

what did they think, that if they called him back he wasn't going to get a hit, or do the same thing. to me the run would have scored anyway. ya got to take them when they go the other way too. there is no crying in base ball, someone should tell Leyland that.

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