On any all-time all-star baseball team one's first baseman would not be Greenberg but, indubitably, Lou Gehrig.
The story, with its elements of obsession, mystery, insanity and a baseball star, made it part of both Chicago's colorful crime history and rich baseball lore.
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Jack Lummus, a football and baseball star at Baylor University, played at end for the 1941 New York Giants.
And on this Valentine's Day there's no love loss between baseball star Roger Clemens and his former personal trainer Brian McNamee.
She also made headlines for claiming to have had a 10-year affair with former baseball star Roger Clemens that began when she was a teenager.
The award-winning online multiplayer game allows the Major League Baseball star to interact anonymously--but still on a personal level--with human beings he wouldn't otherwise know.
He recalled a story about Yogi Berra, a baseball star and a bit of a comic, who was once asked if he wanted his pizza cut into quarters or eighths.
He matured into an athlete with movie-star looks, brandishing baseball bats and tennis rackets with the same intensity as his later heroes would wield swords.
Tonight is the Major League Baseball All Star Game.
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The 82nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Co-presenting is one of the many Dominican baseball players to succeed in Major League Baseball, Yankees star second baseman Robinson Cano, who was named for the late star.
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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is where the game's high-priced big names go to mingle with their peers, hang with their agents and perhaps compare their latest endorsement deals and car purchases.
San Francisco hosts Major League Baseball's All-Star Game tonight.
Making a marketing king out of a star in a team-oriented sport like baseball is tough enough.
Besides the All-Star game, the city boasts two new baseball stadiums, a new basketball arena and a role in hosting next year's Super Bowl at the new MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Although Jeremy Lin is an exciting rising basketball star and Ichiro Suzuki may be a fading baseball one, New York City will once again be the toast of the Asian community as Ichiro, the most recognizable athlete in Japan, put on the pinstripes of the New York Yankees Monday night for the first time.
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The Japanese star is well aware of his unique place in baseball history, and how each milestone he reaches helps to define it.
Imagine a baseball team with a veteran All-Star first baseman and a hot 22-year-old who has been tearing it up in Triple-A. They want to get their young prospect some playing time, but don't believe he'll really benefit much from another season facing Triple-A pitching.
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Retired baseball player Jose Canseco and US TV personality Star Jones will be others hoping to hear "You're Hired!"
"He left a pretty good impact over there, I don't think fans will soon forget what his contributions were, " said former Cardinals manager and star Joe Torre, now an executive with Major League Baseball.
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Major League Baseball's best-known and most controversial star may have taken his last at-bat.
Baseball also marked the official start of All-Star voting, with the online ballot up and running, and voting slated for every major league stadium by May 7.
Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have an All-Star Game.
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Proponents of more generous revenue sharing say their system would be good for baseball because it would allow poorer teams to sign more star players.
During his baseball career, Schilling was a six-time All-Star selection, three-time World Series champion and 2001 World Series MVP.
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On Friday, two San Francisco, California, officials wrote a three-page letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to ask that the 2011 All-Star Game be moved from Phoenix, Arizona, if the law is not repealed.
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