A fan taking part in Mormon Community Night at Dodger Stadium in California before last night’s Dodgers game vs. the Padres collapsed on the field during batting practice and later died. Don Hawkins collapsed near the third-base coach’s box after falling ill. His wife and grandson were in attendance along with about 4,000 other Mormons. [...]

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New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has died.  “The Boss” reportedly suffered a massive heart attack Tuesday morning at 80 years of age. Steinbrenner suffered the heart attack at his Tampa home and was immediately hospitalized. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital. The Yankees owner turned 80 on July 4th and has been in [...]

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It’s a sad day for Yankee fans. Bob Sheppard, the team’s longtime PA man, is dead at 99 years of age. Sheppard, whose authoritative voice earned him the nickname “The Voice of God”, worked at Yankee Stadium from 1951 to 2007. Over the course of his career, he announced more than 4,500 baseball games.  He [...]

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Watch in horror as a Texas Rangers fan falls from the second deck onto the people below. There doesn’t seem to be a shot of the actual fall, although you can check out the reaction of the umpire and other players. Apparently, this guy is OK and responsive, although he is in the hospital. Video [...]

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The Detroit Tigers have finally begun to accept the fact that they must move on without their hot releiver Joel Zumaya. The team has recalled right-handed pitcher Casey Fien from Triple-A Toledo and he’ll be in the bullpen for tonight’s game vs. the Minnesota Twine. Zumaya officially went on the 15-day DL on Tuesday with [...]

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Ernie Harwell, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who was at one time the voice of the Detroit Tigers, has died. He was 92. Harwell died Tuesday at his home in Michigan, the Tigers confirmed. He had been diagnosed with cancer of the bile duct last year. “All of Major League Baseball is in mourning tonight [...]

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Did police go too far? On Monday night, a teenage fan hopped the fence and ran around the outfield in Philadelphia, evading two security officers late in the Phillies game against the St. Louis Cardinals. One officer used a Taser and the fan went down in a heap. What do you think? Was this really [...]

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Ryan Howard is finally banking some Phillies money. Howard signed a five-year extension today that will guarantee him $125 million. The Philadelphia Phillies hold an option for a sixth year that could bring the total to $138 million. Under terms of the extension, the 2006 NL MVP will make $20 million in the 2012 and [...]

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For years, baseball fans have suspected that slugger Mark Mcgwire used steroids when he broke baseball’s home run record back in 1998. The former slugger finally admitted it this afternoon. McGwire said in a statement on Monday that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade. “I wish I had never touched steroids.  [...]

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Free-agent pitcher Jason Marquis has agreed to a two-year, $15 million deal with the Washington Nationals on Monday, according to sources. A physical is needed before the deal can be finalized. In 2008, Marquis went 15-13 with a 4.04 ERA in 33 starts for the Colorado Rockies. In his 10-year career, during which every team [...]

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