Closure Looms for House That Built Ruth
A Catholic school in Baltimore that traces its roots to the Yankees slugger is scheduled to close, the victim of declining enrollment and tough economic times.
A Catholic school in Baltimore that traces its roots to the Yankees slugger is scheduled to close, the victim of declining enrollment and tough economic times.
Baseball’s schedule makers this year threw a curve: there will be no matchups between the teams from May 18 to Aug. 6.
So much has been destroyed that it’s hard to feel even a tingle of fuzzy nostalgia for the house that Ruth built and the city is razing.
The team’s president says the bowl game will be a hit because it will be run by the Yankees and played at Yankee Stadium.
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Topps will formally announce its Million Card Giveaway, in which special cards placed in every sixth pack this year will have a code corresponding to a vintage card.
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Two decades after it stopped making baseballs in Haiti, the sporting goods manufacturer Rawlings could help the devastated nation by reopening its assembly plant.
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A federal judge in Manhattan rejected on Tuesday all claims made by a former president of Madison Square Garden that he gave George Steinbrenner the idea for the YES Network.
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Mark McGwire’s apologetic interview with Bob Costas was the culmination of a carefully planned media strategy.
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The Congressional testimony of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, broadcast on national television, was the steroids trial that has not occurred in baseball.
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