Should the Giants place a statue of Barry Bonds outside AT&T Park? Your vote has been counted, thank you for voting. It's safe to say Roger Clemens won't have a statue of his likeness outside Fenway Park. Not just because of his link to steroids and lega

First the SweetSpot network took on the AL teams. Now they look at the NL. Which players are bloggers most excited to watch this season, and why? Arizona Diamondbacks : Justin Upton Upton was finally healthy for an entire season in 2011, and met all the

It’s sort of a given that Latinos are fanatical about soccer. This is generally true. But there are some countries where the sport of choice is baseball. Last month, Robert Alomar was inducted into the Baseball of Fame, joining fellow Boricuas Roberto Cl

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NEW YORK -- It began with a playful 80-year-old Willie Mays talking baseball in commanding fashion for 15 priceless minutes, finally declaring "The Catch" during the 1954 Giants-Indians World Series his most memorable moment in a hallowed Major League Ba

Prince Fielder has followed in his father’s footsteps to Detroit. In 1990 and 1991, Big Cecil Fielder hit 95 home runs for the Detroit Tigers and was twice the MVP runner-up. Prince is the same age entering next season as his father was following that se

This past week I travelled to Puerto Rico to experience Puerto Rican baseball and to immerse myself in the Puerto Rican culture. This is my story. Regular Mop-Up Duty readers know that I fetishize the way the game of baseball is played internationally an

1938 - Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. His 90 shutouts is second on the all-time list to Walter Johnson and his 16 shutouts in 1916 is still the major league record. 1958 - Canadian born Willie O'Ree becomes the NHL's

Dennis Rivera for The New York Times Ivan Rodriguez at bat. Mr. Rodriguez, 41, is currently a free agent and playing for one of the Puerto Rican Winter Leagueâs four teams. He is the last active Puerto Rican major leaguer to avoid the draft. SAN JUAN, P.

No, we're not talking about Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose. If you didn't hear yesterday's announcement that former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin had been elected to the Hall of Fame, then you understand how the HOF voters get away with so

If a team potentially interested in free agent Prince Fielder wonders how his power production compares to Harmon Killebrew or how his durability ranks with Pete Rose, Ichiro Suzuki and newly announced Hall of Famer Ron Santo, all that team has to do it

LITTLE ROCK Although I grew up in the Chicago area, the St. Louis Cardinals of Bob Gibson, Lou Brock and Orlando Cepeda were my team. I also ended up marrying into a family full of Cards fans, most of whom are now distraught over the defection of Albert

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is sending a little bit of Cooperstown to another part of the world where baseball is so cherished. Members of the museum staff -- including senior curator of exhibitions and collections, Erik Strohl -- are

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The Golden Era Committee meets this weekend in Dallas at the winter baseball meetings to decide the worthiness of ten veterans and executives for Hall of Fame enshrinement. One of those ten candidates is beloved Brooklyn Dodger first baseman and manager

Minnie Minoso isn't a complainer. Just ask any of the pitchers who hit him with 192 pitches during his big-league career, many of whom had meant to drill him. Minoso never charged the mound. If he could, he would pick up the ball and flip it back to the

The White Sox recently hosted the "Minnie Minoso Hall of Fame Forum" at U.S. Cellular Field to celebrate Minoso's career and support his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. A gathering of media, statisticians, historians and former players discussed

During the Minnie Minoso Hall of Fame Forum at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago earlier this month, White Sox historian Rich Lindberg spoke an undeniable truism about the White Sox legend. "So much about him went unseen nationally," Lindberg said, lauding

The right field wall at PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, stands 21 feet tall in honor of Roberto Clemente. Clemente, the Bucs' legendary right fielder who wore No. 21, died in a New Year's Eve plane crash in 1972. As baseball fans know, Clemente