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Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsBaseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa, AP Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka accepts donations from fans for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts before Boston's spring training baseball game Monday against the New York Yankees in Fort Myers, Fla. Seattle Mariners hitter Ichiro Suzuki failed to ...
Mike Kekich: 5 Facts on the Former Yankee Who Swapped His Wife
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIn 1972, New York Yankees pitcher Mike Kekich swapped wives -- and then lives -- with teammate Fritz Peterson, a fellow pitcher. The two men took up with each other's spouses, and even traded kids and pets. Sound like a movie plot? That's what Ben Affleck and Matt Damon thought. The stars, with help from Ben's brother Casey, are developing a script called "The Trade" based on Kekich and Peterson's true story. Kekich is reportedly hoping the film won't happen, and not just because he knows Affleck and Damon are Red Sox fans. Here are more details about the Yankee whose life off the field ...
The Dugout: New York Yankees Spring Training 2011
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsNew York Yankees Chief Executive Somebody's Relative Hank Steinbrenner is blaming Derek Jeter and the rest of the 2010 Yankees roster for not winning the World Series again, claiming their 2009 championship celebration "lasted too long" and that they were "too busy building mansions" to concentrate on winning. Jeter downplayed the comments, and Steinbrenner sort of apologized, saying the choice of words was a "euphemism," clearly showing that Steinbrenner is learning how the things he says can negatively affect a ball club, and that Hank Steinbrenner has no f**king idea what the word ...
Bernie Williams, Going to Bat Against Hunger
By Chris Epting - AOL News"It was great. I mean, I play different stuff than rock 'n' roll, but they made me feel right at home up there. It's what I love about music. I can adjust to other situations than I'm used to being in. That's music. Whatever the groove, it's fun to adjust." It's the morning after former New York Yankees legend Bernie Williams played onstage at the Anaheim Convention Center with The Band From TV, the popular group of musicians made of stars including Hugh Laurie, James Denton and Greg Grunberg, among others (players that night included Grunberg along with Adrian Pssar, Jesse Spencer and Bob ...
New York Gov. David Paterson Fined Over Yankees Tickets
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyGov. David Paterson has been fined $61,125 for accepting free tickets to last year's World Series, New York's top ethics panel announced Monday. The state Public Integrity Commission said Paterson "knew his conduct was unlawful" when he testified that he he intended to pay for the five tickets to the first game of the series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Members of his staff contradicted his testimony. Paterson, 56, attended with two aides, his son, Alex, and a friend of his son. The hefty fine includes the $2,125 cost of the five tickets and penalties for ...
The Dugout: Jeters Never Prosper
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsDerek Jeter is having trouble negotiating the terms of his contract with the New York Yankees to the point that his agent is calling the talks "baffling." So, you see, he's having trouble getting money. I go to other sports sites and read the headline "JETERS NEVER PROSPER," then I get mad about how they totally yanked that from me and probably don't even know The Dugout exists. Then I remember that I'm making a living off of a fan fiction reproduction of Chris Berman's old gimmick and cancel my e-mail. Today's Dugout follows. And if you don't like that, maybe you'll like my new feature ...
Kristen Lee, Cliff Lee's Wife, Reportedly Unhappy With Yankee Fans
By Jimmy Hascup - AOL NewsAll the cards appear to be in place for the New York Yankees to sign Cliff Lee this offseason. One: their rotation struggled this postseason -- and the last time they failed to make the World Series, in 2008, they spent $243.5 million on two starters, CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett. Two: Sabathia is one of Lee's best friends, having played with him while both were members of the Cleveland Indians. And three: Lee's agent, Darek Braunecker, is also the agent for Burnett. But if Lee's wife, Kristen, has any say, he may have to think twice about accepting that imminent contract offer from the ...
Their Pitching a Puzzle, Yankees Might Just Need to Hit Way Through October
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- If they weren't the Yankees, you'd swear somebody was out to get them. Here was A.J. Burnett, who's supposed to be their second-best starting pitcher, trying to get through a late September tuneup start and show the team he's got a chance to be the October stud he was for them last year. And then, for the second time in three starts, rain cut short his outing. A two-hour, 11-minute rain delay meant that Burnett got through only three innings against the Rays on Wednesday night, leaving the Yankees unable to decipher anything from what he did. "I thought he had great stuff tonight, ...
Yankees HOPE Week Magical for All
By Lisa Olson - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Every once in a while a sports team or an athlete does something that makes you sit up and scratch your head. What were they thinking? Why on earth would they attempt such a thing? For five straight days last week, the New York Yankees mystified all five boroughs and much of New Jersey. The Yankees won a handful of games in that span, though that hardly seemed to matter. No, this was a time to sprinkle magic, to make a profound difference, to change lives, and if you think that's an exaggeration, you didn't see Jorge Grajales' look of pure bliss as Nick Swisher did a ...
Roger Clemens Denies Charges on Twitter; Twitter Responds
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- How the mighty have fallen, only to be picked up by their Twitter followers. On Thursday, legendary pro-baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, aka "Rocket," former MVP (with the Boston Red Sox) and two-time MLB World Series champion (with the New York Yankees), was indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts, including lying to Congress under oath about his alleged use of anabolic steroids. He's now looking at maximum sentence of 30 years and a $1.5 million fine, but will likely only go to jail for less than two years if convicted. Still, neither the indictment nor the threat of ...
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