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Baseball quiz: On July 4, remember Lou Gehrig

On that day in 1939, he delivered his famous “Luckiest Man” speech at Yankee Stadium after being diagnosed with the disease that later was named for him.

Chicago Sun-Times

Global warming could be juicing baseball home runs, study finds

Baseball home runs appear to be getting a little extra help from climate change, a new study finds. That's because baseballs can fly farther through air that's made thinner by warmer conditions.

WEKU

Gene Collier: Sadness, as ever, returns with baseball

A soul-warming occurrence for something like the last 140 years, baseball's annual return to Pittsburgh this weekend brought with it as required an inevitable portion of nostalgia, sometimes felt in its acute form as plain old sadness.

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Spring Training Report: How Teams’ Lineups, Anti-Shift Strategies Are Shaping Up

What we’ve seen and heard so far, including the Orioles’ abundance of talent at shortstop and players who have reported to camp in tip-top shape.

Sports Illustrated

Joe Buck paid a beautiful tribute to his late friend and TV partner Tim McCarver

What a heartwarming homage to McCarver.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Working at SI Was a Dream Fulfilled

For the first 12 or so years of my life, I was convinced that one day I would be the starting catcher for the Yankees. I was a switch-hitter, like my idol Jorge Posada, and I wore No. 7 for Mickey Mantle, the player I was almost named after. I…

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Bill Walton Calls Out an ESPN Colleague and Labels Him a ‘Troll’

Walton seemed very unhappy with Joe Lunardi’s treatment of the Pac-12.

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Bob Raissman: Mourning the death of Tim McCarver, the best analyst to ever grace a baseball microphone

The snapshot of Tim McCarver penetrating our mind when we heard of his death at the age of 81 Thursday afternoon, was first meeting him while he was standing on the press level of Shea Stadium squinting out at the sun while spitting tobacco juice into a Styrofoam coffee cup.

Tribune News Service

Remembering Tim McCarver, Baseball’s Renaissance Man

The longtime catcher and broadcasting legend, who died Thursday at 81, had a deep and prolific impact on the game.

Sports Illustrated

All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster Tim McCarver dies at 81

McCarver had a long run as the one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators.

WEKU

Tim McCarver, former standout Cardinals catcher and famed baseball broadcaster, dies at 81

ST. LOUIS — He had a stellar baseball career, a bulldog of a catcher who won two World Series with the Cardinals in the 1960s and played in three. He had an even more decorated run after his playing days ended, an unparalleled marathon as a network television analyst on…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Baseball Great Tim McCarver Dies at 81

Before his award-winning broadcasting career, he was a two-time World Series champion in St. Louis.

Sports Illustrated

Tim McCarver, Major League Baseball catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

McCarver’s death was announced by the Baseball Hall of Fame, which said he died Thursday morning in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was with his family.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

The famed broadcaster and former St. Louis Cardinals star Tim McCarver has died

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SI:AM | Why Did the Mariners Go With Robbie Ray?

There’s plenty to second-guess about manager Scott Servais’s decision.

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