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What Chris Jaffe’s new book has to say in his new book about the controversial late manager.

On Oct. 18, 1988, a walk-off home run was hit in the World Series off of an All-Star reliever. But this isn’t Kirk Gibson off Dennis Eckersley, it is Mark McGwire and Jay Howell. Richard looks back at this and other memorable postseason series featuring multiple walk-offs.

The Chronicle’s Henry Schulman was in the press box before Game 3. As with all good accounts of such things, Schulman captures the tragic, the comic and the simply insane: Like the fans, many of us assumed power would be restored and the game would be played. Then came word from transistor radios (remember those?) […]

The latest in the business of baseball.

The latest in the business of baseball.

Should we bother taking down the “bust” label on this former first-round pick?

The Oakland Athletics’ rookie pitchers have certainly been a surprise and none have seen as much success as 21-year-old lefty Brett Anderson. Get the skinny on Anderson in this installment of THT Fantasy Focus.

I hit up the Miguel Tejada pitch-tipping thing at NBC over the weekend, but I didn’t think too deeply about it. I stand by my initial thoughts on the matter though, which were (a) I don’t know if he was doing it or not and I’m not sure anything in the article proved that he […]

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You kinda saw this one coming. I can only assume that Giambi still wants to play somewhere. If not, don’t you think that the A’s and him would have tried to work out some sort of retirement announcement? I dunno. Maybe contract stuff complicated it. As it is, I think there’s zero chance that he […]