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Maikel Garcia of Team Venezuela defeating Team USA in the 2026 World Baseball Classic championship game. (Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Baseball resists the war mindset

Alex Galbraith
A better looks over their Super Bowl LVIII betting slip tickets (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

The racial costs of sports betting

Jerel Ezell
Baseball dreamin' (Marcia Straub/Getty Images)

A plan to rescue baseball from itself

Jason Kyle Howard
Dodgers are baseball champions once again, triumphing over the Blue Jays in Game 7 of the World Series with all the flair and flash of a Hollywood movie. But from a historic dynasty, can you expect anything less? (Emilee Chinn / Getty Images)

Hollywood end: Dodgers are champs again

CK Smith
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Isiah Kiner-Falefa of the Toronto Blue Jays tags out Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 2025 World Series. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Americans want a fair playing field

Kirk Swearingen
Fans are seen waving rally towels during Game Two of the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers. (Photo by Mary DeCicco/Getty Images)

Brewers fan fired over "Call ICE" threat

Alex Galbraith
After a big home run hit from Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader, drama unfolded in the stands over who "deserved" the ball. "Phillies Karen" had a short-lived victory, and a boy celebrating his birthday ended up with a great family memory, thanks to MLB and stadium staff. (Lucas Casel / MLB Photos / Getty Images)

“Phillies Karen” sparks viral outrage

CK Smith
Jen Pawol makes her debut Saturday as the first female umpire to work a regular season MLB game. (Brandon Sloter / Getty Images)

First female MLB umpire takes the field

CK Smith
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Pete Rose is introduced to the crowd as the 1976 World Series Championship team was honored prior to the start of the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the San Diego Padres at Great American Ball Park on June 24, 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

Ending manhood in the hall of shame

Robert Lipsyte - TomDispatch.com
Pete Rose as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, March 1989. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Pete Rose: Still more Trump corruption

Mike Lofgren - TomDispatch.com
Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker stands in the dugout prior to the game between the New York Mets and the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field on Monday, April 3, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ( (Photo by Jeffrey Phelps/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

"Mr. Baseball" Bob Uecker dies at 90

Alex Galbraith
High Angle View Of Baseball Field (Getty Images / Tim Kuret / EyeEm)

Expect more homeruns with climate change

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
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Buttermilk Cake ( Photo by Ty Mecham/Food52. Food stylist: Anna Billingskog. Prop stylist: Megan Hedgpeth)

A World Series-winning buttermilk cake

Josh Cohen - Food52
Players for Long Beach's new minor league baseball team, the Breakers, take their seats in the team bus for a trip to Utah for a game against the "Pioneers" on 05/16/2001. (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Labor battle with Minor League Baseball?

Mitchell Nathanson - The Conversation
Announcer Vin Scully of the Los Angeles Dodgers poses for a photo circa 1960s. (Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images)

How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig

James Walker, Judith R. Hiltner - The Conversation
A League of Their Own (Anne Marie Fox/Prime Video)

"A League of Their Own" gets in the game

Melanie McFarland
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High Angle View Of Baseball Field (Getty Images / Tim Kuret / EyeEm)

When ballparks double as edible gardens

Ashlie D. Stevens
A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder Jackie Robinson in uniform. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jackie Robinson was a radical

Peter Dreier - The Conversation
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Minneapolis Police Union head Bob Kroll on stage during a campaign rally at the Target Center on October 10, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The rally follows a week of a contentious back and forth between President Trump and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Flaming the fans

Robert Lipsyte - TomDispatch.com
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the evacuation of American citizens and their families, SIV applicants and their families, and vulnerable Afghans from Afghanistan. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Fox News deceptively edits Biden speech

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
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Vanessa Williams (left) proposes to her girlfriend Megan Coombs in front of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on the Opening Day of baseball season on April 01, 2021 in New York City. The couple are both longtime Yankee fans. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How long will MLB stay in the closet?

Peter Dreier - The Conversation
Former first lady and president of the United States Melania and Donald Trump do "the chop" prior to Game Four of the World Series between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves Truist Park on October 30, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Getty Images)

Trump ripped for doing "tomahawk chop"

Brett Bachman
President Donald Trump, left, plays ball with Mariano Rivera, the MLB Hall of Fame closer from the Yankees, during a Major League Baseball Opening Day event at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2020. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump caught in World Series lie

John Wright - Raw Story
Cleveland Indians president of business operations Brian Barren talks to members of the media during a press conference announcing the name change from the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)

RW mad at Cleveland Indians' name change

Brett Bachman
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