The controversy over the missed home run by Oakland’s Adam Rosales on Wednesday at Cleveland raised questions about instant replay and umpiring, but there’s another issue, although it is much smaller. Why is it so difficult to make a home run call in the first place?
There has never been a pitcher quite like Mariano Rivera, never a career quite like this. Rivera wanted to retire after last season but couldn’t let his last active day in uniform be tearing his knee on the Kauffman Stadium warning track shagging batting practice fly balls last May.
The controversy over the missed home run by Oakland’s Adam Rosales on Wednesday at Cleveland raised questions about instant replay and umpiring, but there’s another issue, although it is much smaller. Why is it so difficult to make a home run call in the first place?
From Baker University to Yankees pinstripes, Vidal Nuno’s rise through baseball has been rapid and improbable. On Saturday, Nuno became the second player in Baker’s history to wear a major-league uniform in a game.
On a recent spring afternoon, John Schmiedeler, 82, sat down with his baseball-loving grandson, Matthew, to reveal to him a bit of family history about the All-Star Game.
On the first night of July 1951, the Carthage Cubs shuffled onto rickety buses that would take them from Jaycee Park to the YMCA in Pittsburg, Kan. Their manager barked at them for losing both games of a doubleheader to the Pittsburg Browns.
