Baseball
Battles Erupt Over Japan’s Plan to Demolish Meiji Jingu Stadium
TOKYO — Over a span of nearly 100 years, Meiji Jingu Stadium in central Tokyo has been the scene of...
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John Underwood, Stylish Sportswriter and Author, Dies at 88
John Underwood, a stylish writer at Sports Illustrated for nearly a quarter century whose rollicking account of a fishing trip...
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Dick Groat, Hoops Whiz Who Became a Star Shortstop, Dies at 92
He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season N.C.A.A. scoring record. He went...
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Former Mets All-Star Daniel Murphy Joins Long Island Ducks
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Daniel Murphy looked out over the grass at Fairfield Properties Ballpark, where the Long Island Ducks...
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Mets’ Max Scherzer Ejected From Start Over Foreign Substance
LOS ANGELES — Starting pitchers for 200. It was not a Jeopardy question at Dodger Stadium this week. It was...
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Rob Manfred Says Athletics Have Work to Do on Las Vegas Deal
Major League Baseball is hoping to become the latest major sports league to enter the Las Vegas market. The Oakland...
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How Gleyber Torres of the Yankees Got Back to His Old Approach
Gleyber Torres was the best player in the Yankees’ lineup over the first two weeks of the season. Stroking the...
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Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Takes Beating the Yankees Personally
The next time the son of a road team’s superstar visits the Bronx, the Yankees would be wise to treat...
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‘Mythological’: The Best Shohei Ohtani Comparison Is Bo Jackson
Mark Gubicza has an idea, and he is just the guy to make it happen. As a pitcher in the...
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Max Scherzer and the History of Ball-Doctoring Excuses and Denials
For nearly as long as baseball has existed, pitchers have been using various methods, legal and otherwise, to doctor the...
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