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Alabama baseball team to hold gun raffle

Huntsville Stars fans will have the chance to win guns from Larry's Pistol and Pawn

Alex Halperin Friday, Jun 28, 2013 9:13 PM UTC
Life Baseball, Guns, Alabama

Mainstream America paid in peanuts and cracker jacks

The poor wages of the San Francisco Giants' concession workers highlight this country's growing income inequality

Michael Winship, BillMoyers.com Monday, Jun 10, 2013 6:07 PM UTC
Business BillMoyers.com

Baseball’s war on drugs going about as well as government’s

Pro sport acts like the feds, gets similar results in attempt to eradicate drug use

Alex Pareene Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 12:51 PM UTC 19
Politics Opening Shot, Baseball

Not all San Francisco Giants workers basking in victory

While the championship team's value has soared, concession workers making $11,000 haven't gotten a raise in 4 years

Jessica Luther Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:00 PM UTC
Business San Francisco Giants

Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays: The best rivalry of baseball’s golden age

Who was better: Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? Fifty years after their rookie season, we're still debating it

Allen Barra Monday, May 27, 2013 9:26 PM UTC 33
Entertainment Baseball, Books, Sports

Is the knuckleball an optical illusion?

New research suggests that the pitch doesn't bob and weave suddenly; it just seems to

Jay Ingram, The Walrus Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:14 PM UTC 15
Entertainment The Walrus, R.A. Dickey, Baseball

Returning to Chicago three decades later

30 years ago, I worked for Harold Washington, brought the Cubs good luck and lost a friend to AIDS. Now, I'm back

Joan Walsh Monday, Apr 15, 2013 2:00 PM UTC
News Driving Miss Sadie, Chicago

Waiting for the gay Jackie Robinson

As we wait for pro athletes to come out, "42" presents a sanitized version of baseball's racial struggle

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Apr 13, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 36
Life LGBT, Gay Rights, gays, 42

How baseball saved me from Rush Limbaugh

In Iowa, a faraway Giants-Cubs radio broadcast rescued me from Limbaugh's toxic obsession with Michelle Obama

Joan Walsh Friday, Apr 12, 2013 6:01 PM UTC 45
Life Driving Miss Sadie, Nebraska

Even a Mets fan can be optimistic on Opening Day

Baseball season is finally upon us, which means hope once again springs eternal

Bryan Joiner, The Classical Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 4:12 PM UTC
Life The Classical, Baseball, the mets

Opening Day: Spring’s other religious holiday

It's no coincidence that the start of the baseball season coincides with Easter and Passover

Josh Davidson, Full Stop Monday, Apr 1, 2013 10:13 PM UTC
Life Full Stop, MLB, Baseball, Passover

MLB sues Florida clinic for doping its players

The league claims the clinic solicited Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and others to use banned substances

Curt Anderson, Associated Press Friday, Mar 22, 2013 8:52 PM UTC
Business Associated Press

I took my dead father to a Red Sox game

New fiction about living with the man who raised you, long after he's gone

Ron Currie Jr. Saturday, Mar 9, 2013 3:00 PM UTC
Life Fiction, Baseball, Sports

Philip Roth’s retirement lesson

The author hung it up when he lost his unreasonable devotion to writing fiction -- and inspired me to follow suit

Dwight Allen, LA Review of Books Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 12:39 PM UTC
Social LA Review of Books, Art, Fiction

MLB to expand blood testing for human growth hormone

The organization will increase efforts to track the use of artificial testosterone VIDEO

Bob Baum, Associated Press Thursday, Jan 10, 2013 9:15 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, aol_on, MLB, Baseball

Bonds, Clemens must be forgiven

We don't really know what steroids do. So stars like Clemens and Bonds should join baseball's Hall of Fame today

Allen Barra Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 3:28 PM UTC 59
News Sports, Baseball, Hall of Fame

Baseball goes sci-fi

You don't have to be a fan of peanuts and cracker jacks to appreciate Ryan Woodward's sepia-toned comic app

Laura Miller, The Chimerist Saturday, Oct 20, 2012 1:01 PM UTC
Entertainment Baseball, The Chimerist, Apps

Derek Jeter injured as Tigers win ALCS opener

The Yankees' star shortstop is out for the postseason

Ronald Blum, Associated Press Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 1:04 PM UTC
Life Derek Jeter, Yankees

First in war, first in peace, first in the National League

Washington, D.C., has always had a tortured relationship with baseball -- until now

Ryan Bloom, The American Prospect Friday, Oct 5, 2012 4:28 PM UTC
Life Major League Baseball

I’ll always hate the Yankees

So the smug Yanks make the playoffs again. Boring. We learn more about ourselves when we cheer for losers

Rob Tannenbaum Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012 5:20 PM UTC 44
Entertainment Red Sox, Knicks, Jets, fans, Yankees

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