How can you condemn cheating in a game where the players are expected to "steal" bases? David Jacobson has done a remarkable job in researching and writing this week's business of baseball feature package, talking about salaries, the revenue sharing model and the MLB's legally sanctioned monopoly...
McDonald's Corp. enlists Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa for a 30- second TV spot breaking April 23 that targets kids ages 8 to 13. The commercial, from Leo Burnett USA, Chicago, ... McDonald's Corp. enlists Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa for a 30- second TV spot...
After failing to raise enough money to open a Sammy Sosa restaurant, longtime Chicago businessmen Gene and Joe Silverberg are now in talks to sell the rights to the project to a group of local investors. Joseph N. Gomez, a former banker and well-k...
OAK BROOK, ILL.--McDonald's teams with Chicago Cubs superstar Sammy Sosa for a "McWorld" TV spot that targets 8-l3-year-olds: "Do Over" which is slated to run through next year on network and cable youth programming, features a young boy hanging put with a buddy who is nonplused at the arrival home...
Sammy Sosa's home runs have landed him on the front page of newspapers across the country, while Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez's pitching prowess has brought him fame. Sammy Sosa's home runs have landed him on the front page of newspapers across the country, while...
WHAT DO BASEBALL BATS, HURRICANE RELIEF, AND A THE WORLD'S LARGEST MIRROR HAVE IN COMMON? LOGISTICS PROFESSIONALS MADE SURE THEY REACHED THEIR DESTINATIONS ON TIME AND INTACT. Unusual products sometimes call for unusual logistics. But more of WHAT...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--BW SportsWire--Jan. 12, 1999--Electronic Artstm (Nasdaq:ERTS), the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, confirmed today that the company has reached an agreement with Sammy Sosa, the 1998 National League Most Valuable Player, to be EA SPORTS'tm spokesman for Triple Play 2000.
In the June issue, there was a listing in the letters section of pitching teammates with the most combined victories in one season (the combined wins ranged from a high of 68 to a low of 50). It made me think of the 1968 Tigers...
Web Watch Debunking a Home Run Derby myth Hey, A-Rod, maybe it was safe for you to participate in the Home Run Derby after all. That's what Sportstsar.com concluded by taking the Derby winners since 2000 and looking at their second-half performances. ...
It's all the rage The Phillies demoted their opening-day starter to triple A? We can do one better, Braves management said. One day after being swept by the Phillies, Atlanta demoted starting rightfielder Jeff Francoeur to double-A Mississippi. Obviously, sending flamed-out stars to the minors is becoming a...
DO NOT TRY TO TELL ANY OF THE frenzied, flag waving fans sitting in the right-field seats at Wrigley Field on Opening Day that Kosuke Fukudome won't rank with Daisuke Matsuzaka, Ichiro Suzuki and Hideo Nomo on the list of major league baseball's most significant Japanese imports....
Collect ten points for each question answered correctly. Answer on page 90 (If you score 80 or better, you are a baseball expert; 70 or better, superior; between 60 and 70, good and between 40 and 60, average. 1. Among players with 500...
ONE-GAME HIGH MARKSPlayers With Six Hits In One Nine-InningMajor League Game, (1900-2007)SINCE 1900, COLLECTING SIX HITS IN A NINE-INNING GAME HAS BEENACCOMPLISHED 62 TIMES IN THE mayor leagues by 60 players. OnlyDoc Cramer and Jim Bottomley did it twice during their careersand former Pirates second base- man Rennie Stennett...
GRIFFEY HITS 600TH: Cincinnati Reds All-Star Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 600th career home run against the Florida Marlins at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, FL. Griffey became just the sixth player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career home runs, with a two-run drive in...
No "no-no" Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo went to bed early yesterday morning figuring they had combined on a no-hitter in the Battle of La La Land. But even though the Los Angeles Dodgers did not get a hit off Angels pitching, the game was not a "no-no."...
MIAMI -- Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds became the sixth player to reach 600 career home runs when he hit a pitch into the right-field seats against the Florida Marlins at Dolphin Stadium on Monday. Griffey hit a hanging breaking ball on a 3-1...
MIAMI -- Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 600th home run on Monday night, completing his long ascent and becoming the sixth player in history to reach that milestone. The Cincinnati outfielder homered off Florida lefty Mark Hendrickson in the first inning of the...
MIAMI AFP — Cincinnati Reds slugger Ken Griffey became just the sixth player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career home runs on Monday with a two-run shot off Florida Marlins hurler Mark Hendrickson. Griffey launched a 3-1 pitch from Hendrickson 413 feet over...
MIAMI AFP — Cincinnati Reds slugger Ken Griffey jnr became just the sixth player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career home runs on Monday with a two-run shot off Florida Marlins hurler Mark Hendrickson. Griffey launched a 3-1 pitch from Hendrickson over the...
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