NL team notes (USA Today)
nl notes
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Carroll falls in state final (Southlake Times)
ROUND ROCK-Texas high school baseball fans could not ask for much more out of the Class 5A State Championship game Saturday at Dell Diamond. Plano West and Southlake Carroll combined for 19 hits and 18 runs.
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Sheldon Ocker's The Write Stuff (Akron Beacon Journal)
Sheldon: In reading your article (on the 9-year-old kid banished from his team for throwing too hard), it occurs to me that there is a solution to the issue you highlighted.
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Cards prepare for sinkerballer Johnson (St. Louis Cardinals)
Cards prepare for sinkerballer
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Baseball gives special-needs kids 'something to brag about' (CNN.com)
The crowd cheered as Morgan Lawless faced her first pitch of the fall baseball season.
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Voyagers bring knockout punch to postseason (Chicago White Sox)
Pioneer League playoff preview
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Weekly Beef — Watching the Tigers’ ship sink (The State News)
Call me a fair-weather baseball fan (guilty as charged), but somewhere in the past month, I lost interest in the Detroit Tigers.
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Quality Starts, Power Keys to Mets Revival (The New York Sun)
For a first-place team, the Mets have given their fans a thrill ride. However much it may lack last season's sense of certainty, it's beginning to promise a much happier ending. Keeping the drama stoked for more than five months already has been a fluid roster that has been cause for alarm all season long, forcing GM Omar Minaya and his staff to adapt and overcome all season long. Perhaps even ...
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Review: Swinger Game Console (Geek.com)
It isn’t often that a home console is released that requires AA batteries. The last one that even took batteries, that I can remember, is the original Pong machine back in the 70s. Except that one took D sized batteries, which made it heavy enough to potentially knock out large animals with. [...]
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Rays are giving hope to everyone (Sports Illustrated)
The best part of watching a sports miracle, for me anyway, is that precise moment when everyone realizes, "Hey, this thing really could happen." During the last Super Bowl, that moment hit America precisely .03 seconds after Giants quarterback Eli Manning tore away from the army of the living dead, heaved the football downfield and David Tyree somehow clamped it against his helmet.
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