Tag: Baseball
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A visit with “Mr. Baseball” Bob Uecker
Ever since Babe Ruth was waddling around the bases, there have been grim predictions about baseball’s future: Time has passed on the national pastime, too leisurely, too bucolic. Last year’s World Series TV ratings, and this season’s batting averages, both hit 50-year lows. Baseball, they say, is dying. But never mind the current World Series…
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Dick Moss, lawyer behind free agency in baseball who revolutionized pro sports pay, dies at 93
New York — Dick Moss, the lawyer who won the arbitration case that created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized pay for professional athletes, has died. He was 93. Moss died Saturday at an assisted-living residence in Santa Monica, California, the Major League Baseball Players Association said Sunday. He had been in poor health for…
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Baseball fans watch history unfold
Baseball fans watch history unfold – CBS News Watch CBS News Baseball is known for its iconic moments – but fans didn’t expect to see history made when a June game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox was postponed due to rain. Between the original game and its resumtion on Aug.…
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Babe Ruth’s legendary New York Yankees jersey sells for $24 million at auction
The jersey worn by legendary New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth when he called his shot during the 1932 World Series before slamming a home run to center field fetched more than $24 million at auction. Heritage Auctions offered up the jersey Saturday night in Dallas and it sold for $24,120,000. “In the realm of…