The Latest Breaking News from Baseball

In Texas — specifically, North Texas — one doesn’t need to look far to watch the world’s best football, baseball or basketball players at the high school, college and professional level.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Lil’ Indies bartender Jeremy Kazmier used to spend summers at his grandfather’s little farm out in Apopka, Florida, when he was a kid. It wasn’t all that big, but there were goats and a field where he and his cousins would play baseball and a 1/4-acre garden…

I mean ... wow.

For the first time in an MLB game, two teams wore Pride hats together on the field.

NEW YORK — Tough times last week for two of baseball’s most enduring managers. At 68 years old and 56 games into the final year on his contract, Joe Maddon was fired as manager of the Angels in the midst of a 12-game losing streak. A couple of days later…

SAN DIEGO, Calif — Manny Machado provided an illustration of how wildly wonderful baseball can be when his “instincts” worked out for the Padres in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader.

SAN FRANCISCO — It doesn’t make sense, but it doesn’t have to. It’s baseball.

NEW YORK — Ex-Congressman Peter King, a baseball fan since the Dodgers played in Brooklyn, is coming out swinging in an effort to keep America’s pastime relevant in the age of analytics.

DETROIT — Tigers rookie starter Beau Brieske held a 4.93 ERA and 0-5 record through the first eight starts of his major league career, not exactly the warmest welcome into Major League Baseball.

Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer also weighed in on Seiya Suzuki’s injury and avoiding arbitration with Willson Contreras

Nazareth beat Glenwood 5-1 on Saturday at Duly Health and Care Field in Joliet. It’s the first baseball state title for the Roadrunners.