Baseball Blog

Valpo man badly beaten with baseball bat (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
VALPARAISO | A 23-year-old Valparaiso man suffered five fractures to his skull, a lacerated liver and a broken rib when he was beaten with a baseball bat at 11 p.m. Sunday at Will Park, 354 Morgan Blvd.

BASEBALL Hiroshima eying knuckleballer Fernandez (Japan Today)
HIROSHIMA The Hiroshima Carp are set to make a move for knuckleballer Jared Fernandez, who spent much of the 2006 season with the Milwaukee Brewers’ Triple-A Nashville, in an effort to shore up their pitching staff, baseball sources said Monday.

Baseball going to Doha after all (INQ7.net)
PHILIPPINE baseball has escaped the ignominy of being scratched out of the 15th Asian Games.

Not just another Cinderella story
Orlando Sentinel - Narelle Gosstray! You and your team the Aussie Hearts just finished third in the Sunshine Showdown women’s baseball tournament! What are you going to do now? One, two, three . . . They’re going to Disney World. “That’s why we come,” Gosstray said

Oct 29, 07:02 PM
INS News - Trading Rodriguez is not a farfetched notion, and there are reliable reports from multiple baseball sources that, according to one, “I don’t think there is any way that that relationship can be recovered” and that a trade is “all but certain.” By

Thomas W. Hunter: Retired ad executive
Detroit Free Press - Thomas W. Hunter, a retired advertising executive, was as athletic as he was artistic. In high school, Mr. Hunter ran track, and played hockey, baseball and basketball. He loved fly-fishing with friends and skied until he was 75. But later in his

Civic Center planning opens up
Post-Star - Akins suggested East Field could be used, along with other area facilities, to host a youth baseball camp, modeled after a camp at Cooperstown. “It could be as simple as ABC — that is, the Adirondack Baseball Camp,” Akins said in an interview Friday.