We Have To Bring Baseball Back

In some of America’s darkest moments, the country has turned to Major League Baseball to bring hope and normalcy back to everyday life.

NY Times

Nomar Mazara Is Still An Enticing Prospect To A Lot Of Teams, But Does It Make Sense For The Rangers To Trade Him?

Gonna apologize upfront for brief Evan Help Us this week. Sometimes things pile up. Put together a temporarily short staff, travel issues and the inevitable hangover (not alcohol-based) that comes from those issues and then wrap it up in the ball of the trade deadline and you end up a bit far behind.

Dallas News

Frank Robinson Dead At 83

Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson has died at the age of 83, after battling illness for a many years.

KMOX

DeWitts Have Fond Memories Of President Bush

It was early in the morning after one of those playoff games that went late into the night when Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. heard his phone buzz to life and opted to ignore it.

Post-Dispatch

Tony LaRussa Will Miss His Friend Barbara Bush

Tony La Russa never had a doubt about President George HW Bush and first Lady Barbara Bush’s baseball loyalty when he saw them in Houston at the height of the Cardinals’ rivalry with the Astros. Yet, he always felt the late First Lady’s warmth each time they spoke.

Post-Dispatch

Luke Voit Slims Down, Hopes For Work In Left Field; Better Than 'W'; Carlos Martinez To Get Advance Peek; Tickets Go On Sale

Burly Cardinals first baseman Luke Voit is much more streamlined this spring, having lost some 15 pounds from 260, which he weighed in his first big-league season as he hit .246 with four homers and nine doubles in 114 at-bats.

Post-Dispatch

Craig Stapleton Buys Greenwich Property For $3.5M

The downtown Greenwich property that once housed Outdoor Traders sold this week for $3.5 million to a Greenwich real estate firm owned by Craig Stapleton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic and then France under the George W. Bush administration.

New Canaan News

Cardinals' Game On Minor-League Field A Major ESPN Deal, But John Rooney Not Impressed

Some fans have griped that the Cardinals have looked like a minor-league team at times this season, what with bone-headed baserunning and mental mistakes in the field.

Media Views

Derek Jeter, Jeb Bush Combine Efforts In Bid To Buy Marlins

New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter and former Florida governor Jeb Bush have united in their efforts to buy the Miami Marlins.

KSDK

Rasmus Brothers Credit Dad's Tough Love For Success

The Brothers Rasmus share a clubhouse again, reunited as teammates with the Rays for the first time since the duo won a state title while playing for their dad at Russell County High in Seale, Ala.

Tampa Bay Times

The Rise & Fall Of Rafael Palmeiro

He’s sitting with a North Carolina State hat dipped downward. He’s aged well. Still handsome, the black mustache of his playing days is gone, replaced with a salt-and-pepper beard. When he stands up, his shoulders are muscular, and he looks a decade younger than 51.

Fox Sports

Fernandomania Started 35 Years Ago Today

Today, 35 years ago, he began the '' Fernandomania '' and few like Mike Scioscia, who serves as manager of the Angels today to evoke the moment when '' El Toro Etchohuaquila '' appeared unexpectedly in his first game as starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers .  (Translated)

ESPN Deportes

World Baseball Classic Helped MLB Build Bridges With Cuba

Ten years later, Paul Archey remembers the fax from Havana.

Fox Sports

Remembering Milo Hamilton: Many Share Memories

Below is a collection of statements and quotes on Astros Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton, who passed away on Thursday morning.

Houston Official Site

Clint Hurdle Recalls Baseball After 9/11

Clint Hurdle remembers the numbness. He remembers the sense of the unfathomable.

Pittsburgh Official Site

A Toast To The Inimitable Yogi Berra As He Turns 90

It is 15 springs ago, and Yogi Berra is taking me on a personal tour of his museum in Upper Montclair, N.J. The building is closed to the public on this particular day, so I have the place—and Yogi—all to myself. Talk about a plum newspaper assignment. We walk by the mitt the New York Yankees legend used to catch the only perfect game in World Series history, his three Most Valuable Player Awards and one of his game-worn, pinstriped, flannelled uniforms. We pause for a moment at a larger-than-life photograph of him about to tag a sliding Jackie Robinson. “He was out,” Yogi said, making the call by thrusting his right thumb emphatically into the air. “The umpire definitely blew that one. But I guess after all these years I should probably get over it.”

Rochester Business Journal

Key Connections: Star-Spangled Banner, Baseball Forever Linked

Francis Scott Key never got to see a big league baseball game. He died in 1843, some 26 years before the first professional team was established. But you can imagine his joy if he did get that chance. These days, he'd probably sit in a shiny bleacher seat, waiting for a batting-practice homer with a soft, weathered glove raised high ... in his non-writing hand. Maybe he'd inhale a hot dog while jotting down a few pretty lines for his next song. That would come about an hour before he'd hear the iconic bars of his first one, which, contrary to American lore, does not end with the words, "Play Ball." Odds are he'd be pretty happy at the twilight's last gleaming.

St. Louis Official Site

Q&A: Rick Hummel Chats With Bud Selig

Allen H. “Bud” Selig, then owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and chairman of the Major League Executive Council, returned here as interim baseball commissioner after a Sept. 9, 1992 meeting in St. Louis. Commissioner Fay Vincent had been ousted in a no-confidence vote by the owners and Selig, as chairman of the council, was next in line.

Post-Dispatch

Peter Bourjos Spurred By Move Up In The Lineup; Stinging Reception; Mark Ellis Starts Hitting; New Decor; Extra Bases

Wanting to get his starting center fielder up to speed after a hitless season-opening road trip, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny moved Peter Bourjos up to No. 2 in the order, a spot that has spurred struggling batters before.

Post-Dispatch

Bill DeWitt Is Not Interested In Being Next Commissioner

Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. believes Bud Selig is serious about following through with his plans to retire as baseball commissioner next January.

STL Sports Page