Suzuki, Sabathia and Wagner inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.
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Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.
Few closers have been as dominant as Smith, whose 12th year of HOF eligibility passed without induction.
"I can't say who the leader will be here, but that will happen on its own," reliever Jose Veras says.
Charles Tillman isn't done playing football yet.
He may be finishing in Chicago as unassumingly as he arrived.
ariano Rivera is what's good and right about baseball. Alex Rodriguez is what's emblematic about it.
Within 24 hours the same room held the game's worst representative and its best.
Two of the elite talents in the American League, Miguel Cabrera and Mariano Rivera, have begun this year no differently than any other they have played.
If Kenley Jansen could toss 80-90 frames for Los Angeles, he could strike out 130-140 batters with a low ERA and WHIP.
Mariano Rivera will hold a press conference Saturday announcing his plans to retire at the end of the season, according to a report.
The Yankees' 12-time All-Star caught his cleat where the grass meets the warning track in Kansas City, his right knee buckling before he hit the wall. Rivera landed on the dirt, his face contorted in pain, as Alex Rodriguez uttered the words "Oh, my God" from some 400 feet away.
Long regarded as the best closer in baseball, Mariano Rivera now has more saves than anyone else, too.
Kerry Wood is returning to the Chicago Cubs, agreeing to a one-year, $1.5 million contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
