Babe Ruth-signed baseballs, while treasured, are not that uncommon.  Ruth happily autographed thousands of them while he played and in the few years after he retired.  Some surely ended up being used in sandlot games, being thrown out by overzealous mothers or meeting some other calamity, but many...

The Baseball Hall of Fame has a poll up on its Website, asking which of four milestones you are most looking forward to seeing this year.  The candidates: Ichiro Suzuki’s 10th 200-hit season Alex Rodriguez’s 600th home run (17 away) Trevor Hoffman’s 600th save (nine away) Juan Pierre’s...

Much has been made of the drawn-out negotiations for the services of Johnny Damon this off-season, in particular the belief that he and his agent, Scott Boras, misread the market and left money on the table.  Word is that the Yankees offered the free agent left fielder $14 million for two years, which...

This morning’s snow in the Northeast (where it’s not wanted) and lack thereof in the Pacific Northwest (where the IOC has been doing snow dances for weeks) notwithstanding, Pitchers, Catchers and PR Guys report to Spring Training for all MLB teams in the next couple of days. Marketers, too. New...

When I was eight years old and started to show an interest in baseball, my dad first bought me a pack of baseball cards, then a couple of weeks later he brought home a game called All-Star Baseball, which had dual spinner devices and round cards representing top major league players.  This was the mid-to-late...

I woke up this morning to a radio report that Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman has indicated that he will not discuss contracts with Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Joe Girardi, all of which are expiring in 2010, until after the season.  With Jeter turning 36 this June and Rivera now 40, under...

I attended yesterday’s Bloomberg Sports presentation in New York, in which baseball bloggers, writers and geeks (can I be all three of those?) got a sneak peek at their new (intriguing, with room to grow) baseball analysis tools debuting on Feb. 18. There are two products, one is for consumers...

An interesting contest has been getting a little play today involving 2K Sports’ new Major League Baseball 2K10 video game.  To break through the clutter of game news, 2K Sports has offered $1,000,000 to the first fan who can throw a perfect game on MLB 2K10 from March 2 through May 1. There are...

I decided to take a look back at the Yankees World Series championship teams of the past 50 years and see who were the prominent players (i.e., starters or key reserves) who the Yanks didn’t bring back the following year.  I couldn’t remember a more important position player than Hideki...

I was interested in what fans’ reaction would be to Mark McGwire when he appeared today at the Cardinals Winter Warm-Up event in St. Louis.  As expected, reports were that he was greeted warmly, even cheered. Fine, McGwire hit gobs of home runs for their team, won them some games and energized...