Topic: World Series

Rangers have hole at top of rotation after Lee opts to return to his other World Series teamThe Texas Rangers really wanted to keep Cliff Lee after the ace left-hander helped them get to their first World Series.Lee, however, spurned the Rangers ...
People with knowledge of the situation: Uribe headed from Giants to rival Los Angeles DodgersInfielder Juan Uribe is closing in on a three-year deal to leave the Giants for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers, two people with knowledge of the situation told ...

Giants top $317,000 per share of playoff prize pool

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The World Series champion San Francisco Giants divided up their postseason bonus money of nearly $20 million into 50 full shares worth more than $317,000, Major League Baseball said Monday.American League champion Texas Rangers, who fell in five ...
Infielder Juan Uribe is closing in on a three-year deal to leave the Giants for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday.. A key member of the World Series champions this ...
Postseason share on World Series champion Giants worth $317,631, down from record in 2009A full postseason share on the World Series champion San Francisco Giants was worth $317,631, down from a record $350,030 for the New York Yankees in 2009.The commissioner's office ...
Bud Selig's plan to expand baseball playoffs to 10 teams gains sense of inevitabilityCommissioner Bud Selig's plan to expand baseball's playoffs to 10 teams seemed inevitable after little to no opposition emerged during meetings this week with owners and general managers.Because baseball's ...

Guillen allegedly arranged HGH shipment: report

Guillen, 34, was left off the playoff roster for the Giants, who went on to win the World Series for the first time in 56 years by defeating Texas in five games in Major League Baseball's best-of-seven final.Citing a source close to ...

Pirates hire Hurdle as manager: report

Citing unnamed sources, the report said the Pirates, who have suffered 18 losing seasons in a row, will announced Hurdle as their new manager on Monday.A search that lasted almost seven weeks and involved eight candidates being interviewed concluded with Hurdle, 53, ...

Curse of the Billy Goat

The Curse of the Billy Goat refers to a legend commonly cited to explain why the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team has not been to the World Series since 1945.The Billy Goat curse was supposedly placed on the Cubs in 1945 ...
Like many blind people, Kae Rausch went through school without playing any sports and feeling like a gym class klutz. "Not only was I the last player chosen, but teams would fight over who had to take me," says Rausch, who lives ...