Etiqueta: Baseball
Baseball signed by Zelenskiy sells at US auction for over $50,000
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A baseball signed by the Ukrainian president, Con las tropas de Vladimir Putin concentradas en la frontera con Ucrania, has sold at auction for more than $50,000, with a portion of the proceeds going to Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion. A Boston auctioneer, ...
Family sues LA Angels after stray baseball fractured boy’s skull
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The family of a boy who suffered a fractured skull and brain damage after being hit with a baseball during the warmup for a Los Angeles Angels game has sued the Angels, claiming negligence on the team’s part. En 2019,...
Let’s play ball: MLB players accept labor deal and salvage 2022 baseball season
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Players have voted to accept Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season. The union’s executive board approved the agreement ...
A League of Their Own review – feelgood baseball drama still knocks it out the park
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Director Penny Marshall knocked it out of the park with this terrifically warm, heartfelt and effortlessly entertaining baseball picture, scripted by the veteran screenwriting duo Lowell Ganz and Marc “Babaloo” Mandel...
Major League Baseball cancels spring training games as lockout bites
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Major League Baseball on Friday canceled the first week of spring training games through 4 marzo, in the first public acknowledgement of disruption caused by the lockout. The announcement came with the work stoppage ...
Rise of the machines: Robot umpires moving up to Triple-A baseball for 2022
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Robot umpires have been given a promotion and will be just one step from the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A, the highest level of the min...
Baseball caps are back with Succession to thank, but logos are out
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What treasures might the “1%” pull out of their Christmas stockings on 25 diciembre? Este año, there’s likely to be a cashmere baseball cap in the mix. This accessory – distinguished by its lack of logo – is poised to...
How Pearl Harbor stopped the birth of the LA Browns and changed baseball history
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Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago not only ensured the United States’ entry into the second world war. It inadvertently but categorically changed baseball history. One day after the attack, Major Le...
Guerra contra el diamante: el día en que las Grandes Ligas se volvieron letales
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Se necesita un instante para que una pelota de béisbol viaje desde el montículo de lanzamiento hasta el plato de home.. En ese corto lapso, desastre se desarrolló durante un juego entre los Indios de Cleveland y los Yankees de Nueva York hace más de un siglo. En 16 Planta ...
England v Romania memories, baseball bungling and flying stumps
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1) Italy pulled out all the stops for their Euro 2020 squad announcement, with the selected players taking part in a three-hour variety show. All in good fun, even if the rap segment might have been a bit much. It was...
Major League Baseball pulls All-Star Game from Georgia over voting law
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Major League Baseball will not hold its annual All-Star Game in Atlanta this year, after Georgia passed a law that makes it significantly harder to vote. The announcement is perhaps the most consequential action taken...