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Marvin Miller, the longtime head of the Major League Baseball Players Association who died Tuesday at 95, was no visionary. That was what made him a great man. As he described his own career, in his terrific autobiography A Whole Different Ball Game and in a series of cantankerous interviews in his later years, the revolution he led in American sports was premised on nothing more than an eye for detail, a...
Marvin Miller, an economist and labor leader who became one of the most influential figures in baseball history by building the major league players union into a force that revolutionized the game, died on Tuesday at his home in... more »
On Thursday, the American League will announce the recipient of its Most Valuable Player award. The winner is likely to be Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers star who won the league’s triple crown by leading in batting... more »
The 101 previous winners of baseball’s Cy Young Award make for a fascinating pitching tableau. There are starters and relievers. There are masters of the curveball, the sinker, the slider and the splitter. There are fierce... more »
David Price has stood tall on the Tropicana Field mound in his Rays uniform and pitched through many pressure-packed, stressful situations with nary a hint of fear. But standing about 100 feet away Wednesday, in front of an... more »
Watching the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers slog it out in the rain Monday night was a blast. Heinz Field was a gloriously sloppy mud pit—resembling conditions for the Bears and Texans in Chicago on Sunday... more »
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