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This is the story of the St. Louis Cardinal who never played for the St. Louis Cardinals.

At tables overlooking the San Francisco Bay on a recent, unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon, diners slurped down oysters, cut into crepes, and shared bottles of rosé chilling on ice. The stands of the Ferry Plaza’s weekend farmer’s market teemed with fresh artichokes, leeks, and oranges; the empanada vendor was sold…

As the Dodgers battered and sprayed baseballs around Petco Park on Sunday, a painful early-season reality became even more so for the Padres.

You play to win the game.

They scheduled a community-college baseball game in Texas, and a spring-football scrimmage broke out.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Here, on the precipice of a city’s future, they are selling Cracker Jack.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Days after an exonerated Kevin Strickland was released from the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron after the tragedy of serving the longest known wrongful conviction in state history, the Kansas City Royals learned of his yearning to feel the grass beneath his bare feet at…

DETROIT — The bat met the ball, as it has so many times, with a sharp crack. And the man met the moment, decades in the making, then hours in the making, the legend officially bronzed on a brilliant day, in a perfect way.

DETROIT — Commission the statue, clear space on the Comerica Park bricks and alert the Hall of Fame.

DETROIT — Sitting on 2,999 after going 0 for 3 with an intentional pass Thursday, then enduring the rainout Friday, the big man did not make the folks wait long on Saturday.

Major League Baseball has been in existence for more than a century. Nearly 20,000 players have taken the field. Until today, 32 players ever amassed 3,000 hits. With his single to right field in the bottom of the first inning, Detroit Tigers first baseman and designated hitter Miguel Cabrera became the…