Another one bites the dust: a look at the firing of Cecil Cooper.

Book review: Durocher tells it as he thought it was

TUCK! toons right here, every Thursday

Well, to Arlington. He was already in Texas: Ivan Rodriguez is returning to the Rangers to be a backup catcher. The Rangers completed a trade with the Houston Astros on Tuesday to reacquire the 14-time All-Star catcher for two players, according to multiple sources. The Astros will receive a Minor League player and a player […]

This is a couple of weeks old, but I haven’t seen it elsewhere and it’s pretty cool: As many of you know, I have written about my love of the Houston Astros uniforms from the 1970’s and 1980’s several times. The Astros were by far my favorite team growing up and the whole thing started […]

Earlier in the week the Astros blamed Aramark for their no-outside-food policy. They may not have Aramark to kick around for much longer: The company that sells alcoholic beverages at Minute Maid Park could lose one of its state licenses at the stadium because of an incident last summer in which an allegedly drunken driver […]

On May 27, 1968 Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas were born. But everyone knows that story. Today Richard looks at the other players born on that date.

We’re ready for round two with this memorable heavyweight.

Fanno gets a dog!

This week in Lost in Transactions, several teams underwent significant shuffling. The Oakland Athetics and Cleveland Indians made some wholesale changes, while the Red Sox welcomed back Julio Lugo.