Mike Trout of the L.A. Angels homered off L.A. Dodgers’ ace Zack Greinke to lead off the game, and the American League doubled up the National League, 6-3, in the MLB All-Star Game at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
Baseball and softball were kicked out of the Olympics in 2008, mainly because the sports are mostly played only in the Americas, but they've been given new life.
They're among eight sports being considered for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The Detroit Free Press and WZZM TV has reported that Detroit Tigers legend and former Michigan State 2-sport star Kirk Gibson has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Gibson, in his first year back as an analyst with Fox Sports Detroit, has been absent from the FSD broadcast booth since the Opening Day telecast.
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You may have heard that as a publicity stunt for his new movie Get Hard, Will Ferrell played all 10 baseball positions in five spring training games with various Major League Baseball teams in Arizona this week.
But have you heard about the odd baseball back story behind his feat? Two guys named Cesar and Campy and, later, a Detroit Tiger did what Ferrell did, but in regular-season games that coun
Brian Williams has reached the pinnacle of his broadcasting career.
He makes $10 million a year; he's one of the most trusted men in America (like you, Donald Trump; not Walter Cronkite); and he heads the news department of a one-time major American television juggernaut.
BUT that's not why he has reached the top of the career mountain.
World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner threw five scoreless innings of relief, and Michael Morse drove in the game-winning run with a bloop single as the San Francisco Giants beat the Royals, 3-2, in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series in Kansas City on Wednesday night.
The Cinderella story of the Kansas City Royals meets the biennial excellence of the San Francisco Giants in the 2014 World Series beginning on Tuesday in Kansas City. Here's a preview of what to expect in this year's edition of the Fall Classic: