Sports memorabilia dealer and president of Tary Enterprises Jerry Zuckerman recalls being out and about with his baseball cards.
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Mesa, a cross between Ozzie Guillen and Dusty Baker, always entertained with his antics and consistent illegal rubbing of the baseball with his winter gloves during pitching changes.
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With his love of baseball, expensive living and fat cigars he was the all-American Arab.
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Ando said he hopes that one day he will be able to play baseball with his son, who is an avid sports fan.
Paul Beeston, president of the Blue Jays, knew something was going on when he started talking baseball with his longtime barber for the first time.
But then he noticed that as his time for weights lessened with the demands of the baseball season, his batting swing became freer and faster.
While Rodriguez will probably enjoy a luxurious lifestyle with financial security for the rest of his life, the days after his baseball career could be filled with guilt, remorse and loneliness.
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She shook hands with Rivera, posed for a picture with his valuable right arm around her shoulder and accepted a baseball with the signature of the future Hall of Famer.
We were increasingly aware of the generational gap between him and Andrew, who sported a UFC baseball cap, fiddled with his mobile phone and, to Sheattie's dismay, spent so much time in school and so little time learning how to live off the land.
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.
Does he really want to endure the rigors of another baseball season while his family deals with the spotlight of the Clemens trial?
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As a boy, he made himself red epaulets, wore baseball pants and ran around with a French flag his mother made for him.
The Wall Street Journal (November 9, 2010) profiled a retired U.S. professor, Peter Bjarkman, who reports on Cuban baseball and has been criticized for his coziness with Cuban officials.
" On a recent day, Ronnie Carvey, Taneisha Beckford and their 3-year-old son were among those stopping at the grave to pay respects, with Carvey explaining to his child that Robinson was a "famous baseball player.
Yankees fan and New York native Steve Sanzillo is still going back and forth with his Sox fan wife, Boston native Christine Sanzillo, over which baseball team their 19-month-old son, Jackson, will root for.
Security will be tight during the six-day visit, with 27 state, local and federal agencies protecting the pope as he meets with religious leaders, celebrates Mass at two baseball stadiums and makes his way around in the popemobile.
Mr Heaton's family have confirmed that a baseball cap found along with the fishing rod on Saturday was his.
During much of his NFL career, he also was an outfielder with four Major League Baseball teams and played in a World Series with the Atlanta Braves.
For a while after she moved in, he pottered around with a smile on his grizzled face, raffishly touching the brim of his baseball cap to us neighbors and whistling as he swept the leaves off his front steps.
Traffic rushing to Weiland's 2010 Lin piece briefly crashed the Hoops Analyst website after Lin torched the Lakers for 38 points Friday, and his wisdom has been compared with the groundbreaking number-crunching in the baseball best seller "Moneyball, " which became a recent Hollywood movie.
He seemingly interviewed everyone who ever came into contact with DiMaggio -- from his childhood buddies in San Francisco, to his baseball teammates, to the beauty queens Joe took out on dates, to casual bystanders who once saw Joe in a restaurant -- and then molded their stories into a story rippling with energy and detail.
Baseball's all-time saves leader will step aside with his skills intact but his desire waning.
He is walking away on his own terms, as the greatest closer in baseball history, with no regrets.
He is the only player in baseball history with 30 home runs and 100 RBI during each of his first 10 seasons.
"Here's this guy who has me at his mercy with a pair of scissors and he's asking me about baseball, " Beeston said.
Wearing a blue checked shirt and a plain baseball cap, he is shown being held on the ground with his hands bound, then being escorted away.
Harvey grew up in Connecticut rooting for the Yankees, but has quickly blossomed into one of baseball's most dominant pitchers during his first full season with the Mets.
"Stan will be remembered in baseball annals as one of the pillars of our game, with his many successes on the diamond, the passion with which he played, and his engaging personality, " Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said.
He is considered unique in baseball history for his sustained success, his longevity, his dominance with one pitch the cutter and his unflappable personality.
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Bush had a giant basket of names to start with--from Texas, from his father, from his work in Major League Baseball, from Yale, Harvard and Andover.
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