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Youthful Doodles Costly
for Sports Collectors

Oct 21, 2008 5:40 PM CDT

Youthful Doodles Costly for Sports Collectors

Innocently defacing cards, balls, comics makes items nearly worthless to collectors

(Newser) - Mickey Mantle never wore a beard, but that didn’t stop an 8-year-old Mets fan from giving him one, scrawling the words “You Stink,” on his 1968 Topps card. While such youthful indiscretions are fairly common, collectibles that could be worth hundreds, even thousands, of dollars are rendered...

5 Factors to Focus On in Series

OPINION

Oct 21, 2008 2:33 PM CDT

5 Factors to Focus On in Series

(Newser) - The World Series starts tomorrow night, with two teams that might not be so familiar to viewers. With that in mind, John Lowe, writing in the Detroit Free Press, has prepared a list of five players or positions that could be game changers.

Centerfielders: The Phillies' Shane Victorino and the

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Sox Fans Drove Joba to Drive Drunk: Report

Oct 21, 2008 12:58 PM CDT

Sox Fans Drove Joba to Drive Drunk: Report

Pitcher's DUI arrest came after taunts about Yankees' season

(Newser) - Joba Chamberlain nearly got into a fistfight with a Red Sox fan before his alleged DUI, the New York Post reports. Chamberlain began the ill-fated night by pounding a couple Grey Goose drinks at a friend’s bar, before hitting a strip club. There he encountered a heckler. “Too...

Can Phanatics
Cheer Up at Last?

Analysis

Oct 21, 2008 10:35 AM CDT

Can Phanatics Cheer Up at Last?

Pessimism a way of life for Phanatics

(Newser) - Optimism doesn’t come easy to Phillies fans. “They feel like dogs that have been kicked too much,” one UPenn professor tells Allen Barra of the Wall Street Journal. The Phillies have won precisely one title in their 125-year history, amid mountains of grim collapses. “Phillies history...

Tip Your Hats to Tampa

OPINION

Oct 20, 2008 2:00 PM CDT

Tip Your Hats to Tampa

Rays' talent rises to occasion, avoids epic collapse in beating Boston to seal Series trip

(Newser) - The improbable has happened. The Tampa Bay Rays have ousted the defending champion Red Sox. Sportswriters, start your fawning:

The Rays won this thing with “talent, talent, talent,” which trumps experience every time, writes Bob Ryan in the Boston Globe. “The best team in the American League

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Say it Ain't So, Joba: Pitcher Catches DUI

Oct 19, 2008 12:06 PM CDT

Say it Ain't So, Joba: Pitcher Catches DUI

Yankees' Chamberlain arrested in Nebraska on 3 charges

(Newser) - New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, speeding, and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. Nebraska State Patrol said Chamberlain was stopped for speeding near his hometown of Lincoln at about 1am yesterday. Chamberlain was taken to the Cornhusker...

Sox Fans Curse Themselves for Missing Comeback

Oct 18, 2008 2:44 PM CDT

Sox Fans Curse Themselves for Missing Comeback

(Newser) - Red Sox nation is secretly grieving. Sure, the Sox pulled off one of the most incredible comebacks ever on Thursday, but precious few were actually watching. Many among the Fenway Faithful didn’t exactly live up to their name, the Boston Globe reports. “It was 7-0,” laments one...

Us Can't Wait for World Series

Oct 17, 2008 11:07 AM CDT

Us Can't Wait for World Series

Fan unintentionally coins rallying cry for first Series berth since '93

(Newser) - When a delirious Phillies fan called in to a radio show after Philadelphia's NLCS win, he inadvertently coined the team's new rallying cry. "Boston did it. The White Sox did it. Why can't us?," he asked. While waiting to see which AL team they'll face, Phillies fans have...

Obama Ad to Delay
World Series Game

Oct 16, 2008 1:33 PM CDT

Obama Ad to Delay World Series Game

If there is a Game 6, MLB agrees to push start back 18 minutes so Fox can air spot

(Newser) - The GOP is crying foul after Fox announced it would delay a possible World Series Game 6 to air a 30-minute Barack Obama spot, CNN reports. Obama has bought airtime from Fox, CBS, and NBC for Oct. 29. “Not only is Obama putting politics before principle, he’s putting...

A Baseball Nerd Turns to
Election Stats

Oct 15, 2008 11:32 AM CDT

A Baseball Nerd Turns to Election Stats

Nate Silver was right on the Rays; he's now calling the presidency

(Newser) - Give the sheer number of political polls being produced, and the history of many of them proving wrong, it takes a seriously smart statistician (and something of a nerd) to predict the presidential race with any authority. Nate Silver, the man who "revolutionized the interpretation of baseball stats,"...

Rays Rout
Boston, 13-4;
Lead Series 3-1

Oct 14, 2008 10:32 PM CDT

Rays Rout Boston, 13-4; Lead Series 3-1

(Newser) - Tampa Bay rocked Tim Wakefield and the Boston Red Sox tonight in a 13-4 victory at Fenway that put the defending champs on the brink of elimination. Evan Longoria hit his rookie-record fifth home run of the playoffs, and Carlos Pena and Willie Aybar also homered off aging knuckleballer Wakefield....

Rays Rip Red Sox, 9-1,
for Series Lead

playoffs

Oct 13, 2008 7:25 PM CDT

Rays Rip Red Sox, 9-1, for Series Lead

(Newser) - B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria, and the rest of the Tampa Bay Rays are bashing their way through their first trip to the playoffs, the AP reports. Upton and Longoria homered off a suddenly shaky Jon Lester, and the power-packed Rays cleared the Green Monster four times to beat the...

Dodgers Return Home Cooking, Down Phillies, 7-2

playoffs

Oct 12, 2008 11:09 PM CDT

Dodgers Return Home Cooking, Down Phillies, 7-2

(Newser) - The Dodgers cut Philadelphia's NLCS lead to 2-1 tonight, riding a 5-run first inning and the mental boost of a bench-clearing standoff to a 7-2 victory in front of a record Dodger Stadium crowd of 56,800. The teams exchanged errant pitches in the second and third innings before the...

Fans' Ashes in Limbo as Yankee, Shea Shut Doors

Oct 11, 2008 3:43 PM CDT

Fans' Ashes in Limbo as Yankee, Shea Shut Doors

As Shea and Yankee stadiums shut, relatives fret over final resting places

(Newser) - Now that Yankee Stadium and Shea have shut their doors forever, people who scattered ashes in their favorite ballpark worry that their loved ones may spend eternity in a parking lot, the New York Times writes. Some are searching for a way to get some dirt out of the hallowed...

Baseball Is King Again in Philly

OPINION

Oct 7, 2008 1:06 PM CDT

Baseball Is King Again in Philly

Phillies' success has taken focus off NFL's Eagles

(Newser) - Of his team’s playoff success, Phillies star Cole Hamels didn’t mince words. “Hopefully,” the pitcher said, “it will turn the city red a little bit more than it is green.” Green meaning the Eagles, the NFL team that’s long marked Philadelphia as a...

Red Sox Send Angels Packing

playoffs

Oct 6, 2008 11:02 PM CDT

Red Sox Send Angels Packing

(Newser) - When it turns to October, no one dominates like Boston. Jason Bay slid headfirst into home plate to score on Jed Lowrie's two-out single in the ninth inning tonight as the defending World Series champs beat Los Angeles, 3-2, in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series. The Sox advance...

Rays Win 6-2, Earn ALCS Berth

playoffs

Oct 6, 2008 7:49 PM CDT

Rays Win 6-2, Earn ALCS Berth

(Newser) - B.J. Upton and these Tampa Bay Rays are headed home — to get ready for the American League championship series. Worst in the majors last year, the Rays will play for a spot in the World Series after finishing off the Chicago White Sox 6-2 today in Game 4...

Angels Finally Avert Sweep, Stay Alive in 12

playoffs

Oct 6, 2008 12:15 AM CDT

Angels Finally Avert Sweep, Stay Alive in 12

(Newser) - Francisco Rodriguez's biggest save of a record-breaking season came in a tie game. Rodriguez wriggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the 10th inning, Mike Napoli hit two early homers before scoring the go-ahead run in the 12th and the Los Angeles Angels avoided another playoff sweep by beating the...

Sox, Dodgers,
Phillies Win
Openers

Playoffs

Oct 2, 2008 5:24 AM CDT

Sox, Dodgers, Phillies Win Openers

Phillies, too

(Newser) - Jason Bay and Manny Ramirez both proved why they’d been acquired last night. Bay hit a two-run shot to give the Red Sox a lead they never relinquished, sending Anaheim to a 4-1 defeat, while the man he was traded for hit a solo shot in the Dodgers' 7-2...

Ballpark Grass Is Artful Work

Sep 30, 2008 6:55 PM CDT

Ballpark Grass Is Artful Work

Red Sox groundskeeper pioneered growing trend in baseball aesthetics

(Newser) - Amid the pageantry sure to accompany tomorrow’s opening of the Major League Baseball playoffs, the increasingly intricate patterns mown into stadium grass is sure to catch fans’ eyes. Red Sox groundskeeper David Mellor pioneered the technique as an assistant in Milwaukee in 1993, the New York Times reports, and...