Ryan Merryman
Splendid Splinter a Bronx Bomber? Yanks tried to make it happen 12 holiday gifts for MLB stars under the tree Predicting every team's No. 1 prospect a year from now 12 players who reached big-time milestones in 2024 King to Cooperstown? HOF cases for, and against, Félix ...
Mr. Baseball: Directed by Fred Schepisi. With Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert. Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and fri
Footer:Those of us who have been around a couple of decades longer than the movie appreciated the “Wizard of Oz” reference, when the kids were trying to get into the ballpark -- "Well, that’s a horse of a different color! Come on in!" That was very clever. Also, the Diet Pepsi...
The game has long been woven into the fabric of American life and identity. “It’s our game,” exclaimed the poet Walt Whitman more than a century ago, “that’s the chief fact in connection with it: America’s game.” He went on to explain that baseball has the snap, go, fling ...
Favorite Pick: This team played it great at the catching position, letting a value pick fall to them in the 14th round in Willson Contreras. Contreras has been incredibly consistent, hitting at least 20 homers in each of the last four full seasons. And with a slight dip in ground ball ra...
Erik Roth: If we look at you as a technology organization, baseball has been one of the first movers in a lot of the technology. Where do you view technology today relative to innovation? And how does it work in terms of creating and implementing things?...
AS LONG ASanyone can remember, the game has been in trouble. It has always existed in a perpetual state of failing to dazzle young people, always mired in an existential crisis, always teetering on the edge of oblivion. "Baseball is dull -- they've been saying this stuff for more than...
It's been pretty bizarre to kind of watch the whole thing unfold, primarily because I do feel like mainstream media has given a lot of softball interviews. And even this tweet back and forth with Maxine Waters very politely asking him to attend a hearing, and him politely deferring, it ...
Browne:That day game/night game thing always bugged me. How hard would it have been to get that right? Sheldon:Not as cool without the lights, I guess. Browne:I love how you can see No. 27 David Ortiz, a Minnesota Twin, running onto the field to celebrate after the Twins beat the...