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Their shining moment quickly faded. The story of the 1980 All-Star Game starting pitchers.

LOS ANGELES — The way the clouds never formed in an ocean blue sky, the way the afternoon sun hit the San Gabriel Mountains, the way one of baseball's truest cathedrals was dropped right into the center of it — this was Dodger Stadium at its heavenliest.

Los Angeles Times

Everton players watch on as Leon Osman throws first pitch ahead of Major League Baseball game

Former Everton player Leon Osman threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Washington Nationals as current members of the Blues squad looked on

Liverpool Echo

All-Star snubs Freddie Freeman, Will Smith punish Cardinals in Dodgers’ 4-0 win

ST. LOUIS — They were two of baseball’s biggest All-Star snubs.

Los Angeles Times

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Bill Plaschke: Attending a game at marvelous Dodger Stadium is a maddening experience

LOS ANGELES — For one shining night it will be baseball's national treasure, a temple filled with history and beauty and stars.

Los Angeles Times

Officer Removed as Youth Coach After Postgame Handshake Incident

Texas sergeant was removed from his coaching role after aggressively interacting with opposing players on a 9-and-under team.

Sports Illustrated

Man jailed for DV murder with bat, knife

A Sydney man who was subject to an ADVO when he attacked his terrified ex-partner with a knife and a baseball bat has been jailed for her murder

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15-year-old charged with murder in encounter between bat-wielding man and squeegee workers in Baltimore

BALTIMORE — Baltimore police arrested a 15-year-old boy Thursday in connection to last week’s fatal Inner Harbor shooting where a baseball bat-wielding man confronted a group of squeegee workers.

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Rays’ Shane McClanahan furthers All-Star starter bid in win over Red Sox

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If American League/Astros manager Dusty Baker or Major League Baseball officials somehow need any more convincing that Shane McClanahan deserves to start next week’s All-Star Game, he gave it to them Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Unvaccinated Royals Lay Bare Their Lack of Commitment

Ten Royals will miss a series in Toronto due to their unwillingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Their ignorance is hurting themselves and their team.

Sports Illustrated

Angels' Mike Trout susceptible again to high fastballs. What is going on?

Three times Mike Trout strode to the plate against Houston pitcher Jose Urquidy on July 2, and three times he returned to the dugout in frustration, the Angels star striking out on three pitches in each at-bat, the equivalent of an immaculate inning by the Astros right-hander against one of…

Los Angeles Times

Video shows Little Leaguers jumping for cover as gunshots fired

The parents of the 7-and 8-year-old baseball players who were forced to hit the dirt to dodge gunshots were left ‘horrified’

The Independent UK

Diane Bell: Teen and his inspiring story to take mound at Padres game

SAN DIEGO — Friday's Padres game against the Arizona Diamondbacks will start in an unusual way.

Tribune News Service

Stephen Bishop reflects on his life in music in 'On and Off,' an autobiography with a dramatic twist

It's no longer surprising for memoirs by music stars and celebrities to contain some major disclosures, be it Mariah Carey confessing to an extramarital affair with baseball great Derek Jeter or Carlos Santana revealing that he was subjected to sexual abuse as a child.

Tribune News Service

Gang of three armed with machetes, baseball bats and wrenches carried out double stabbing

Both victims were stabbed twice

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Clay Holmes blows three-run lead in ninth as Yanks fall to Reds

NEW YORK — The Yankees had lost back-to-back-to-back games just once in this fabulous first half. So the odds were in favor of baseball’s best breaking a two-game slide Tuesday night, especially with one of its All-Stars on the mound and one of baseball’s worst wearing road red.

Tribune News Service

John Romano: There is a reason behind the smile of the guy hitting .148

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The box scores are not always kind to the Happiest Man in Baseball.

The Independent UK

Derek Jeter denies rumour he gave gift bags with signed baseballs to women he dated: ‘Never happened’

‘It’s a story that became larger than life,’ the MLB Hall of Famer says

Sports Illustrated

The Minor League Career That Inspired ‘Bull Durham’

In an excerpt from his new book, writer and director Ron Shelton recounts his own time on the farm—where some familiar events occurred.

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The Conversation

Hotter temperatures increase violent behaviour in Major League Baseball

We normally associate the arrival of warmer weather with positive experiences, such as vacations, walks on the beach and evenings eating on outdoor patios with friends. However, exposure to heat can also generate negative feelings that lead to socially inappropriate behaviour, such as excessive violence in sports.

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: Joey Gallo is on the trading block again, and he should neither be a Yankee nor a Ranger

Joey Gallo says he wants to stay with the New York Yankees, but he really wants to be in the place where he could strike out four times a game, and bat .165 without having to hear about either.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Court’s ruling on school prayer is supremely questionable

“There’s no crying in baseball,” said Tom Hanks’ baseball coach in “A League of Their Own.”

Evening Standard

Nick Kyrgios caps off Wimbledon with Wyld night in London

Nick Kyrgios drowned his sorrows at an exclusive London nightclub following his Wimbledon final loss against Novak Djokovic — still wearing his favourite red baseball cap,

Tribune News Service

Family business: Why Rangers have their eye on sons of former pros ahead of MLB draft

As family businesses go, baseball certainly is a weird one. It’s not like father and son spend all day together over the fire at Ye Olde Baseball Shoppe, first in apprenticeship and then in partnership, forging out careers side-by-side until one day the dad turns over the shoppe keys to…

Chicago Tribune

Ian Happ’s 1st All-Star selection completes the Chicago Cubs outfielder’s career turnaround: ‘Baseball’s a wild ride’

Thirteen months ago, Ian Happ sat in Chicago Cubs manager David Ross’ office at Dodger Stadium.

Tribune News Service

Death of a driver on a downtown street brings Baltimore’s long-running squeegee worker debate to a head

BALTIMORE — For whatever reason, it all came to a head on Thursday afternoon at one of Baltimore’s most inviting intersections: Go one way to the city’s showpiece harbor, the other to its bandbox of a baseball park. Head north to downtown, or south to the redbrick, row house-scaled charm…

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