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‘Tis the season: A how-to guide to 2023 spring training baseball in South Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s the constant refrain of escapees from Elmira and East Rutherford: South Florida has no seasons. Not so. Saturday is opening day for Grapefruit League spring-training baseball for five Major League teams in three South Florida ballparks — for fans, it’s Christmas every day.

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Boston Red Sox 2023 Spring Training Schedule, Location and TV/Streaming Guide

The Boston Red Sox will kick off the 2023 baseball season with their first spring training game on Saturday.

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Nathan Ruiz: CEO John Angelos wants the Orioles to be ‘the next Tampa.’ What happened to the next Houston?

SARASOTA, Fla. — The Orioles rebuilt like the Houston Astros. With that process finished, they plan to compete like the Tampa Bay Rays.

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Astros Donate $1M to Texas Southern Baseball, Softball Programs

The Houston-based university has never had its own baseball and softball fields.

Sports Illustrated

A rough patch: the Astros’ new sponsorship deal with Oxy is doubly ugly

Houston are the latest MLB team to secure a uniform advertising deal as their players become walking billboards for Occidental Petroleum

The Guardian - US

Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner dead at 97

Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner is dead at 97.

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Baker's World Series title among best sports moments of 2022

Dusty Baker finally got his elusive championship with the Houston Astros, garnering his first World Series ring in 25 years as a manager in one of the most memorable moments of the year in sports

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Justin Verlander, Mets agree on two-year, $86.6 million deal

Verlander, 18-4 with a 1.75 ERA, won two Cy Young awards and two World Series championships with the Houston Astros.

Chicago Sun-Times

White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf issues statement on Jose Abreu

“It was my fervent hope that José would never wear another uniform, as I told him many times throughout the years. Unfortunately, hope is not always translated into reality,” Reinsdorf said.

Chicago Sun-Times

José Abreu, the longtime Chicago White Sox 1B and 2020 AL MVP, is signing with the Houston Astros

José Abreu doubled on the first pitch of his first at-bat with the Chicago White Sox on March 31, 2014, against the Minnesota Twins.

Chicago Tribune

Jose Abreu era comes to end with White Sox

Astros, first baseman in agreement on three-year deal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rockets welcome Astros, World Series MVP Jeremy Pena to Toyota Center

Monday’s loudest cheers at Toyota Center went to World Series MVP Jeremy Pena, who was among several champion Astros showing their support for the Rockets.

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Baseball fan 'Mattress Mack' filmed with $10m in wheelbarrow after World Series bet win

The Houston Astros won the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, and some of Mattress Mack's £63.7million in winnings has been collected in a wheelbarrow

Daily Mirror

Golfweek’s 2022 Gift Guide: Affordable golf gifts for less than $50

Get a great golf gift without spending an arm and a leg. Check out Golfweek's list of best golf gifts under $50.

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Justin Verlander becomes free agent after declining $25 million option from Astros

Verlander was among four players who became free agents Thursday, raising the total to 165.

The Guardian - UK

‘Makes the Hundred look like croquet’: a cricket fan on the World Series

The sports both evolved from the same ancestry, and threads link the American ‘national pastime’ to cricket fandom

The Independent UK

This year's World Series is 2nd-least watched on TV

The Houston Astros’ six-game victory over the Philadelphia Phillies finished as the second least-watched World Series on television

The Guardian - US

Gambler ‘Mattress Mack’ wins $75m after betting on Astros to win World Series

Famed gambler Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale is a diehard Houston Astros fan but he had even more reason to celebrate when his team won the World Series

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Sen. Ted Cruz hit with beer can during Houston Astros World Series parade

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was hit with a beer can while riding in the Houston Astros World Series championship parade on Monday. Video shows the can flying at the Republican lawmaker as a person with him fails to stop it from striking him.

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Texans coach Lovie Smith congratulates Astros, manager Dusty Baker on World Series win

Houston Texans coach Lovie Smith took time to congratulate the Houston Astros and manager Dusty Baker on their World Series victory.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Zach Eflin elects free agency, as the Phillies pick up Aaron Nola’s option

A half-hour after the final out was made Saturday night, as the Houston Astros celebrated their World Series victory on the field, the two longest-tenured Phillies players stood side by side in a corner of the clubhouse and reflected on the postseason ride they had always imagined.

The Independent UK

Fans compare Kate Upton and Justin Verlander’s relationship to Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen after Astros win

‘You won’t catch Justin Verlander in a Tom Brady situation’

Daily Mirror

Man becomes biggest winner in sports gambling history after scooping £65million

Mattress magnate Jim McIngvale, 71, scooped £65million after betting £8.7million at odds of 10-1 the Houston Astros would win the coveted World Series in America

The Independent UK

Astros superfan ‘Mattress Mack’ wins record $75m sports bet after housing hundreds of Texas hurricane victims

‘I love y’all. I love this city. I would do anything for this city. And I would do anything for you,’ Houstonian Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale said after winning largest legal sports bet on Astros World Series victory.

Irish Mirror

Man known as Mattress Mack wins world's 'biggest-ever sports bet' for €75 million

The 71-year-old scooped a massive $75 million, which comes in at €75,026,250 in euros.

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