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Has Any Trade Worked Out Better Than The Dodgers/Red Sox Megadeal?
After dancing amidst champagne showers in Arizona's visiting clubhouse, the Dodgers jogged out to right field and Chase Field's pool. Adrian Gonzalez led the charge, and Nick Punto plunged into the water with a cannonball. "We're a veteran ballclub," Gonzalez said, on the occasion of Los Angeles ret...

How A White Couple Stuck Up For Black Ballplayers In Jim Crow Florida
Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...

Meaningless, Meaningful September Baseball Is Great Baseball
A few thoughts, in no special order, on a lousy ballgame from the other night:...

A Conversation With Ron Rapoport
Best of Chicago: Westbrook Pegler on Babe Ruth's called shot | Wendell Smith on the White Sox in Jim Crow Florida | Bob Greene on a hockey "intellectual" | Skip Bayless on Harry Caray | John Schulian on the end of summer...

The Red Sox Made Mariano Rivera's Ceremony All About The Red Sox
Throughout his farewell season, Mariano Rivera has been honored by visiting teams with gifts and small ceremonies celebrating his storied career. The Twins gave him a chair made of broken bats. The White Sox gave him framed scorecards from notable appearances. The Red Sox? They made sure to celebrat...

Red Sox Fan Arrested After Allegedly Grabbing Rays Mascot By The Neck
Trevor James Martin attended last night's Red Sox-Rays game at the Trop. But he spent the rest of his night in the Pinellas County (Fla.) Jail after police say he grabbed Raymond, the Rays' giant blue mascot, by the neck....

Shane Victorino's Nifty Catch Gives Way To Slapstick Routine In Stands
Here we have a happy-go-lucky Red Sox fan, his mood perhaps buoyed by the effects of a few alcoholic beverages, becoming a whirlwind of destruction following a brief encounter with Shane Victorino....


ESPN Camera Catches Dodgers Fan With "Fuck Boston" T-Shirt
I like it, but the purple-and-gold color scheme makes me think this guy might just be a Laker fan who repurposed this shirt from a past Lakers-Celtics series. If that's the case, then good on him for maximizing the value of his insulting t-shirt....

Chris Sale Goes Berserk On Cooler After Bad Outing
The Texas Rangers battered White Sox starter Chris Sale for eight earned runs in seven innings Friday night. After leaving the game, Sale did not take things well....

Police Investigating Robbery Claim Over Home Run Ball At Giants Game
On Wednesday, in the seventh inning of the Red Sox' blowout win over the Giants, Stephen Drew hit a three-run homer. NESN's cameras showed a man who triumphantly came up with the baseball. But San Francisco police are currently looking for that dastardly individual. They say he's a villain who robbe...

Confused Hawk Harrelson Gives His Best Home Run Call
In the 12th inning of last night's White Sox-Royals game, White Sox third baseman Connor Gillaspie sent a shot deep into right field. After watching the ball clear the fence but carom back onto the field of play, White Sox play-by-play man Hawk Harrelson was unsure about unleashing his signature hom...

Paul Konerko Scores Because Wall At Kauffman Stadium Eats Baseball
The White Sox are last in the AL Central, and last in the AL in runs scored. Perhaps they should have thought of this strategy sooner....


Ball Girl Forgets She's Not Supposed To Catch Foul Balls
I suppose, in the heat of the moment, it's possible to forget that a pop-up is still playable when it is in foul territory. Once baseball players start running right at you, though, I kind of feel like you should know to get out of the way. Not this lady....

Red Sox Fans Think A-Rod Is A "Looser"
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Alex Rodriguez Found His Only Defender In Joe Girardi
Just your typical four-hour, Yankees-Red Sox slugfest, with a rabid Fenway crowd calling for blood, a beanball, an ejection, a revenge home run, and multiple A-Rod bombshell stories dropping over the course of the game. This night, everything happened....

Ryan Dempster Beans A-Rod, But Joe Girardi Is The One Punished
Despite repeatedly throwing at Alex Rodriguez in an obvious attempt to bean the Yankees slugger, Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster avoided on-field punishment in an incident Sunday night that left Joe Girardi ejected, the Boston bullpen looking for a fight, and the Yankees banned from retaliation....

Fox Sports Really Wants Bill Simmons To Watch The Red Sox Today
The low-key Bill Simmons-Fox Sports Twitter spat has been one of the more amusingly dumb things in sports media in this long summer. Today, we learned that there's only one Simmons — but there are tons of Fox Sports accounts that can correct him....

Terrible Person Grabs Foul Ball Away From Young Boy At Fenway
While much of the focus on last night's Yankees-Red Sox game landed on the Fenway faithful's treatment of A-Rod, the true villain in attendance was this gent who celebrated the achievement of grabbing a foul ball away from a little kid....