Topic: Major League Baseball
(Reuters) - The Los Angeles Dodgers said late on Tuesday it has filed a motion with a U.S. bankruptcy court to approve its settlement with Major League Baseball, which would kickstart the sale of the bankrupt team.Dodgers will be sold to a ...
(Reuters) - The Miami Marlins have offered free agent Albert Pujols a monster ten year deal worth more than $200 million, Major League Baseball's MLB.com reported on Tuesday.First baseman Pujols, who was a key part of the St. Louis Cardinals team that ...
(Reuters) - The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired closer Sergio Santos in a trade with the Chicago White Sox for promising right-handed pitcher Nestor Molina, the Toronto club announced on Tuesday.The 28-year-old Santos appeared in 63 games last season for Chicago posting ...
A man who worked in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse when he was a teenager in the 1990s said Monday that then clubhouse manager Donald Fitzpatrick, who died in 2005, sexually abused him.At a news conference Monday, Charles Crawford said Fitzpatrick assaulted ...
The average major league baseball salary increased 2.7 percent to almost $3.1 million in 2011, the biggest rise since 2008, the Major League Baseball Players Association said Monday.In its annual report, the union said the 913 players on August 31 rosters and ...
The Miami Marlins signed all-star pitcher Heath Bell to a three-year $27 million contract, the Major League Baseball club announced on Monday.The signing of closing pitcher Bell comes one day after the Marlins signed star shortstop Jose Reyes to a preliminary six-year, ...
Former Chicago Cubs star Ron Santo was elected to American baseball's Hall of Fame on Monday, a year after he died of complications of bladder cancer.The third baseman won five Gold Gloves, was chosen for nine all-star games and belted 342 homers ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Federal securities regulators are investigating the public financing of Miami's new professional baseball stadium and have issued subpoenas to local governments for masses of documents.Already a feature of Miami's skyline, the retractable-roof stadium built for the Florida Marlins is ...
(Reuters) - Former Chicago Cubs third baseman and broadcaster Ron Santo, who overcame debilitating effects of diabetes to inspire others, was elected posthumously to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday.Nine-time All Star Santo belted 342 home runs and won five Gold ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Two men came forward on Monday to accuse a now-deceased Red Sox official of sexually abusing them two decades ago when they were teenagers working for the baseball team.They are the ninth and tenth people to charge former clubhouse ...