New York ? Sitting next to his father in the Citi Field visitors’ dugout Wednesday, Logan Morrison retold the story, how they were together on April 17 when Tom Morrison learned he had stage IV lung cancer.His father’s lips quivering and eyes watering, Logan Morrison finished speaking and ...
Kansas City, Mo. ? Former Kansas University baseball player Rob Thomson, working in the New York Yankees organization since 1990, has had a close look for most of that time at the career of future Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter.The difference, in terms of mental approach to the game, ...
Wappingers Falls, N.Y. ? Dutchess Stadium, constructed in 73 days in 1994, sits on the other side of I-84 from Fishkill Correctional Facility, a charming-looking structure from the outside built 98 years earlier and visible from the ballpark parking lot.It is here, on the right side of I-84, ...
Relief pitcher Brett Bochy announced Monday that he has signed a professional contract with the San Francisco Giants organization and will forego his senior campaign at Kansas University.Bochy — the son of Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy — was selected by his father’s organization in the ...
Boulder, Colo. — Colorado University basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik met with his team and told it he had neither accepted nor been offered the coaching position at Wake Forest.Bzdelik said in a statement released Sunday he informed his squad that he will meet with Wake Forest officials today ...
Do you remember where you were Sept. 14, 1994, the night the World Series was canceled?New York-based Rob Manfred, a lead negotiator for the owners, does.“I was actually in Pittsburgh, I think for a wedding,” Manfred said. “I learned on a conference call it was going to be ...
It was 1970, at the College World Series, where I signed my first autograph. I’ll never forget it: Our Ohio University team had just beaten No. 1-ranked USC in game one, and I was asked to sign a ball on the way to our bus.What a high. Not the victory, but the elevation to celebrity status. ...
Nowhere in the stories written about Donald Fehr’s decision to step down as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association did it say that one of his assistants has very definite opinions on Danielle McCray’s game and how Aishah Sutherland’s athleticism helped the ...
