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Veteran MLB Umpire Sues Commissioner's Office For Racial Discrimination
Angel Hernandez, a Cuban MLB umpire currently in his 24th year in the league, filed a lawsuit today in federal court saying that the league discriminated against him and other minority umpires on the basis of race....
Report: MLB To Experiment With Starting Extra Innings With A Runner On Second
Baseball is a wonderful sport where opposing teams club small white orbs to death and run around in their pajamas, and the only problem with it is that games are interminable. As you may recall, the seventh inning of Game 5 of the 2016 NLDS took approximately an hour and the entire game lasted close...
The Time Joe Torre Broke Down At A Self-Help Seminar
Former Yankees manager Joe Torre, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame last month and will have his number retired by the Yankees tomorrow night, sat down for an interview with The New York Times. During the conversation, Torre was not shy about revealing personal details about his past....
MLB Briefly Shuts Down Dodgers' Bubble Parties
The Dodgers have made a little plastic bubble machine part of their home run celebration. It's as whimsical a tradition as, and much more sanitary than, the Athletics' Rally Possum. But for whatever reason, before Tuesday's game, MLB executive VP Joe Torre commanded them to stop using it. ...
Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox, Joe Torre Elected To Hall Of Fame
La Russa, Cox, and Torre were all unanimously elected to Cooperstown by the 16-man Expansion Era committee. No one else on the ballot—not even Marvin Miller, who did more than any other person to make baseball what it is, received even six votes....
Joe Torre's Daughter Catches Baby Boy Who Fell From Fire Escape
A one-year-old baby boy in Brooklyn was saved from serious injury (or worse) after falling off a second-floor fire escape because he landed in the arms of Joe Torre's daughter. Cue the jokes from insufferable Yankees fans wondering if she can play first base....
Derek Jeter Has Been Meaning To Get To Joe Torre's Book
Derek Jeter, on Joe Torre's book comments about Alex Rodriguez: "We've been down this road before. Alex is a teammate. I support him. Our whole team is behind him. We all support him." [SI]...
ALDS Game 4 Blogdome: Hello Indians, Goodbye Yankees
What they're saying out there in the ether about Cleveland's 6-4 win over New York that ousted the Yankees from the AL Playoffs ......