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Keeping score of a fourteen-inning game with one eye on a Champions League semi-final penalty shoot-out

The Cardinals appointed Mike Matheny as their new manager on Monday. Alongside the White Sox’s appointment of Robin Ventura, the decisions show that managerial experience is far from being an essential requirement when applying for an MLB managerial position

The Minnesota Twins were the class team in the Central last year, but the White Sox and Tigers have every intention of putting them under more pressure in 2011

This is post nine in a ten-post countdown to SABR Day 2011. The series is going through the decades of the 20th Century, backwards from the 1990s. On SABR Day itself, there will be a special feature on the 1890s, which will celebrate the significant link between keeping score and baseball history. This article will be [...]

We might be living in an age of budget cuts in the UK, but Major League Baseball is successfully braving the global economic storm in the States

The Minnesota Twins came into the 2010 season as the favourites in the AL Central and they lived up to those expectations. However, it ultimately proved to be a frustrating year for the Twins, as it was for the rest of the AL Central teams

Our 2010/11 offseason book review series begins with a baseball classic: Eliot Asinof’s seminal book about the Black Sox Scandal

As we reach the final moments of the regular season, players, managers and fans are painfully aware that, second by second, opportunities are falling through their fingers. Some are resigned to their 2010 season ending without incident. Some are hopeful of a successful post-season. Some will just settle for some winter ball. Whatever the situation, [...]

There are five games beginning before midnight UK time today. The A’s and Twins start us off at 18.10 before four games get underway at 21.10.

A preview of this evening’s game on 5 Live Sports Extra. First pitch is scheduled for 19.05, with the BBC show beginning five minutes earlier