7:00 AM ET The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic, and this year’s Induction Weekend festivities have been canceled. Nonetheless, the hall of fame that so many of us visit in our mind’s eye — whenever we take stock of greatness or steep ourselves
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7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. The 2020 season was supposed to be the last year that St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina played before calling it a career in Major League Baseball. But then the COVID-19 crisis put everyone’s plans on hold, and the
7:00 AM ET Dan Kurtz woke up last Tuesday morning to a message he never dreamed of getting. Your site crashed. He opened Twitter on his smartphone and saw that nearly a dozen other people had reported the same issue. While Kurtz slept in Washington state, the Korea Baseball Organization began its season, regaling an
7:48 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1958, Stan Musial recorded his 3,000th hit. Thirty years later, a disgruntled teenager on a hotel escalator was
7:00 AM ET If you like watching professional baseball, the KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) League ought to be your thing right now. The general level of play isn’t the same as Major League Baseball or even Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). But that misses the point entirely; it’s a very different atmosphere than Major League Baseball,
10:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” This week is going to be ugly. There’s no getting around that. Every negotiation starts at opposite ends of a spectrum, and the chasm between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players
8:01 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1925, Yogi Berra was born. There is some truth to the story that before the 1947 season, Red
6:33 PM ET MLB owners approved a proposal that aims to have Major League Baseball back in early July, sources told ESPN. Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly plans to present the proposal to players Tuesday. While player safety playing during the coronavirus pandemic and financial questions about compensation for a shortened season will be at the
7:28 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1998, Kerry with a K. Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood was furious as he walked off the mound after
11:29 AM ET While the official start date hasn’t been announced, the 2020 MLB draft is reportedly expected to begin June 10 and be held virtually due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The draft was initially scheduled to be held June 10-12. How many rounds will there be? This year’s draft will be shortened from
7:00 AM ET Now that we are within 30 days of the 2020 MLB Draft and intel leaking out of pre-draft meetings and conversations with agents has reached a tipping point, it’s time for my first stab at projecting the first round. To be clear, this is my attempt at projecting what teams will do
8:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This story on Michael Jordan’s brief tenure with the Birmingham Barons was originally published on April 5, 2019. Get all the latest updates for “The Last Dance” here. He has made it very exciting tonight. With the Barons leading 5-1, Jordan steps in for the fourth time … two of
12:00 PM ET The last great selloff of the Montreal Expos began in the midst of the 1994-1995 work stoppage, as ownership anticipated massive financial losses from the shutdown. The Expos allowed Larry Walker to walk away as a free agent and traded center fielder Marquis Grissom, starting pitcher Ken Hill and closer John Wetteland.
6:27 PM ET If MLB players are going to put their health at risk if/when the season gets underway, they want to be paid their full, prorated salaries, according to several players who hold key leadership positions in the Major League Baseball Players Association. Players say health is first and foremost on their minds, with
1:08 PM ET Mary Pratt, believed to be the last surviving member of the Rockford Peaches, has died. She was 101. Her death on Wednesday was confirmed by her nephew, Walter Pratt. The Rockford Peaches were part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The league was immortalized in the 1992 film “A League of
8:21 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1960, Tony Gwynn was born. Hitting is so much about hand-eye coordination, and no one had more of
8:05 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1984, the Minnesota Twins‘ Kirby Puckett got four hits in his major league debut. That tied an American
7:00 AM ET So, following the rousing success of the eight amazing seasons of the 1980s and the Oscar-nominated 90 seasons for the ’90s, we conclude our three-part docudrama with 21 seasons for the 21st century. Here’s the direction I took with this one: I chose the most iconic seasons over the past two decades.