7:00 AM ET A FEW WEEKS AGO, Joe Torre was on the phone with a friend. They were discussing whether Major League Baseball could stage a season this year in spite of the global pandemic and worrying about the damage missing so many games might do to the sport. “It could be like before, when
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11:00 PM ET If anything, “Long Gone Summer” is a time capsule of a wonderful summer from 22 years ago, when baseball ruled the sports landscape — perhaps the last time, except for a few weeks in October 2004 and October 2016, when the national pastime could make that claim without any arguments. Of course,
8:38 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1995, Giants infielder Mike Benjamin went 6-for-7. In his previous game, Benjamin had gone 4-for-5; the 10 hits
8:00 AM ET What we’ll call the Jeff Luhnow mentality could be defined as the absolute devotion to gleaning every fragment of advantage, every bit of efficiency, regardless of whether you might drift beyond the bounds of common sense. The ends justify the means; just win the moment, baby. It’s as if Major League Baseball’s
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN Before tuning in to watch ESPN’s “Long Gone Summer” (9 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN) on the famous 1998 race between Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs to top Roger Maris’ single-season home run record (61), we asked three of our baseball
Jun 11, 2020 MARK MCGWIRE TALKED a lot about The Baseball Gods during his playing career, a sure sign of someone who treats the game with a solemnity it doesn’t deserve. He was never more publicly grave than during the 1998 season, his finest moment, when he couldn’t go three words without reminding everyone how
9:44 PM ET A letter from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to the New York Yankees addressing a 2017 investigation of the team should be unsealed, a New York judge ruled on Friday, according to a report from The Athletic. The Yankees are likely to make an emergency appeal before the letter is to be unsealed
7:33 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Major League Baseball Players Association asked MLB to set a schedule for the 2020 season rather than counter the latest return-to-play proposal by the league, setting the stage for MLB to
8:38 PM ET James Micioni was born and died in the same place — a modest, two-story house on a hilly neighborhood in Boonton, New Jersey. He never married, never became a father and never owned a car. He walked to nearby jobs as a high school custodian and a chemical-factory worker, leaving his small,
4:18 PM ET Major League Baseball has reached a billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports, giving the broadcast company continued rights to air playoff games, a source confirmed to ESPN. The exact value and length of the new contract were not immediately known. Last year, Turner aired the full National League playoff slate on TBS. According