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Baseball Player's Wife Admits Stealing Baby

John Johnson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:35:00 CDT

The wife of Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Jose Tabata has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby after faking her own pregnancy. Amalia Tabata-Pereira, 44, faces life in prison for impersonating an immigration officer and pressuring a young couple at a health clinic into surrendering their 2-month-old child last year, reports the...

Spring Training in Full Swing

Will McCahill — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:25:00 CST

The boys of summer are starting to shake off the rust, with today seeing the first (nearly) full slate of spring training baseball games in Florida and Arizona. The defending World Series champion New York Yankees were in action, getting a three-run home run in the ninth inning from unlikely-to-make-the-team-yet...

Winning Teams Juice Ballpark Beer Prices

Harry Kimball — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:51:56 CDT

Fans of winning baseball franchises pay for their bragging rights with more expensive beer, the Wall Street Journal reports. On average, a team that wins 6 out of 10 games charges $1.30 more for a 16-ounce beer than a club with a .400 winning percentage. There are, of course,...

Pirates Set Mark With 17th Straight Losing Year

Will McCahill — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:41:58 CDT

Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates set a new North American standard for consecutive losing seasons by a major sports franchise, the Post-Gazette reports, with today’s loss to the Chicago Cubs guaranteeing the team finishes with more losses than wins for the 17th year in a row. The Pirates had shared the dubious...

Pirates' India Experiment 'Endearingly Ridiculous'

Rebecca Smith Hurd — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:29:01 CST

The Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball’s perennial losers, scored a huge win for US-India relations last week when they signed as pitchers two young reality-show winners, Bruce Reed notes in Slate. “With one grand, unlikely gesture, Pennsylvania has introduced America’s national pastime to the second-most-populous nation on earth,” he writes. “For their...

Brewers Furious Over Denied No-Hitter

Peter Fearon — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:18:33 CDT

Lefty Milwaukee Brewers CC Sabathia threw a one-hit shutout pitching a complete game against the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday in a 7-0 victory. But instead of celebrating, the Brewers are furious that he was denied a no-hitter by an official's disputed fifth-inning base-hit call on what some say was an fielding...

BoSox Deal Ramirez as White Sox Land Griffey

Harry Kimball — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:17:00 CDT

The Red Sox traded Manny Ramirez at the deadline today, shipping the disgruntled outfielder to the Dodgers in a three-way deal that sends outfielder Jason Bay from Pittsburgh to Boston, reports New England Sports Network. Earlier, Ken Griffey Jr. agreed to a trade from the Reds to the White Sox,...

MLB's Midterm Report Cards

Kevin Spak — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:20:03 CDT

Report card time! Here’s how the rambunctious kids of MLB are doing so far, in Yahoo Sports’ Steven Henson’s estimation. A students —Rays, Red Sox, Cubs, Angels, White Sox Particular kudos go to the Rays, the poor kid who went to the head of the class. B students —Cardinals, Brewers,...

Soriano Homers Twice, Cubbies Beat Pirates

Mike Buss — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:41:02 CDT

Alfonso Soriano homered in his first two at-bats, Geovany Soto and Mark DeRosa also homered and the surging Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-4 Friday for their seventh win in eight games. Soriano connected on the first pitch from Tom Gorzelanny for his third leadoff homer in four games...