Though he still would have been by far the highest paid manager in baseball, Mr Torre rejected the offer, describing it as an insult.
Mr. WILLIAMS: Baseball has not been interested in this topic.
Mr. DAVE ETLIN (Baseball Fan): I'll show you what I'm going to do next year.
Mr Selig can now redistribute baseball's revenues from the Internet to poorer clubs.
Railways and major league baseball, notes Mr Grisso, are the only two businesses in America that are exempt from antitrust laws.
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Mr. NICK PETERS (Baseball Reporter, The Sacramento Bee): Teams will consider what whether we can use him as a designated hitter in the American League.
In later years, Mr. Carter worked as a baseball broadcaster with the Florida Marlins, now known as the Miami Marlins, and coached minor-league baseball.
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And whereas Mr Chavez is a gregarious, baseball-playing, wise-cracking natural politician, his new rival is handicapped by a much stiffer, more aloof public image.
All of which is set to leave Brooklyn's baseball fans--like Mr Dole--with nothing but fading memories and ball-park blues.
Despite having started his second (and final) term as mayor with a blizzard of campaigns to rid New York city of, among other things, drugs, jaywalkers, crumbling baseball stadiums and impoliteness, Mr Giuliani looks restless.
The core of Mr Selig's argument is that baseball is not really a collection of individual teams, but a single national enterprise that, to be successful, must give each participant an equal chance to win every year.
Mr. ALAN SCHWARZ (Sports Writer, Baseball America, New York Times): Well, thank you, Neal.
As Mr Zimbalist shows, the accounts of most baseball teams are fiction, which makes revenue-sharing impossible to administer.
Now Mr Hayes wants to turn Compton's baseball stadium into America's first professional cricket ground, giving international teams a pitch in the heart of South-Central.
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Baseball officials, however, said Mr. McCourt and his soon-to-be-ex-wife are responsible for the team's dire finances and they shouldn't be able to use money from the club to get them out of their financial hole.
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If I throw my Sabermetric hat on and focus on WHIP, Mr. Dickey ranks 3rd in all of baseball just behind established thoroughbreds like Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants and Jered Weaver of the L.A. Angels.
Mr. ALLAN BUD SELIG (Commissioner of Baseball): The unique circumstances surrounding BALCO and the evidence revealed in a recently published book have convinced me that major league baseball must undertake an investigation of the allegations that players have used illegal performance enhancing substances.
Mr Heaton's family have confirmed that a baseball cap found along with the fishing rod on Saturday was his.
The commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, originally fined Mr Rocker, sent him for psychological counselling, and suspended him for several games.
Mr. McCourt's action flouts one of baseball's most sacred tenets: That the commissioner's power to act "in the best interests of baseball" is essentially unlimited, giving him the right ban players and executives, reject unfair trades and, when necessary, control the operations of franchises.
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Mr. Clemens, 49 years old and retired from baseball, has pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Clemens, one of the best pitchers in baseball history, faces criminal charges stemming from allegations he lied under oath to members of Congress in 2008.
Mr. Halman had just returned from a tour of baseball clubs in Italy, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands that included Prince Fielder and Adam Jones, organized by Mr. VandenHurk.
One appeared to show Mr. Fogle being handcuffed on the ground while wearing a baseball cap, a light-blue checked shirt and a dirty-blonde wig.
Mr. Carter was head of the Palm Beach Atlantic University baseball program in 2011 when he was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.
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Mr Torre may still have been the best paid manager in baseball under the new contract, but he would not have been as well paid as before.
The FSB also released a photo that appeared to show Mr. Fogle being handcuffed on the ground while wearing a baseball cap, a light-blue checked shirt and a dirty-blonde wig.
In many ways, Mr. Musial was a perfect fit for a laid-back, baseball-loving Midwestern town.
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