Willie Mays is helping Aaron Rowand: When Aaron Rowand took a seat at Mays’ table in the Giants’ clubhouse last week, something important was happening. For all the talk of Rowand’s prolonged hitting slump during his first season with the Giants, his fielding troubles might have been more crucial. Rowand did not always get great […]

In law school they tought us that fans more or less assume the risk of balls and bats and stuff flying into the stands at ballgames. Not so in Iowa, at least when you’re a kid: The lawsuit stems from a June 2003 Quad City River Bandits game in Davenport that Tara Sweeney, 8, attended […]

I always liked Ron Silver. Even if his daughter didn’t know that her boyfriend’s father WAS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY!!!

Lew Wolff has given what seems like the final kiss-off to Oakland: The Oakland A’s have “exhausted” their time and resources with the city of Oakland in a search for a new home, and have “no interest in covering old ground again,” A’s owner Lew Wolff said in a statement released Friday . . . […]

I continue to not get excited about the WBC, but that doesn’t mean that the off-the-field stuff isn’t interesting. For example, there’s all kinds of fun stuff in Jack Curry’s WBC notes piece. Like the fact that Bernie Williams was either (a) wrongfully accused of striking that woman or (b) is really getting the wagons […]

You’ve seen him on YouTube. Now learn more about him at the NYT: [Gar] Ryness has a singular talent: an ability to perform comically dead-on impressions of major league baseball hitters upon request. Little Leaguers have been known to try to imitate their favorite ballplayers. Ryness, 35, a married father of two, can do the […]

Things to read while realizing that, even in an economic downturn, some products have inelastic demand: The intrepid THT writing staff will be previewing the 2009 season via a “five questions” format, and we begin things today with Matthew Carruth inquiring about the Seattle Mariners. My contribution to this series will be to ask a […]

A look why we should reconsider Hanley Ramirez as the No. 1 pick in 2009 fantasy drafts.

Midnight has passed in Seattle and a new dawn awaits a deserving city.

How does NAIA baseball stack up against the levels of the NCAA?