Baseball / MLB Jul 17, 2021
Babe Ruth's granddaughter hails Shohei Ohtani's success as 'good for baseball'
"Right now he's the best thing in baseball so far that people are interested in," Linda Ruth Tosetti said of the power-hitting ace.
Baseball / MLB Dec 16, 2019
Out of the park: Babe Ruth's 500th home run bat fetches more than $1 million
Babe Ruth may have died more than 70 years ago, but the baseball slugger is still turning out big numbers. The bat he used to hit his 500th home run in 1929 has sold for $1,000,800, officials for SCP Auctions announced on Sunday. The bat, ...
Business Nov 27, 2019
Babe Ruth is poised to hit another home run, only this time on the sports memorabilia market when the bat he used to slug No. 500 nearly a century ago hits the auction block on Wednesday. Known as the "Sultan of Swat" during a storied ...
Baseball / MLB Nov 13, 2018
MLB players, San Francisco coach Hensley Meulens reflect on Shohei Ohtani's 2018 campaign
by Jason Coskrey
Around this time four years ago, during the last tour of Japan by major league players, the MLB world at large got its first real glimpse of Shohei Ohtani. After pitching an inning of relief in the opener of that 2014 Nichibei Yakyu series, Ohtani, ...
Sports | MAN ABOUT SPORTS Aug 8, 2017
Patience with young players yielding returns for Red Sox
by Dave Wiggins
Patience is a virtue, they say. But it is one rarely exhibited in MLB, especially when it comes to rookies. Be good or be gone is usually the modus operandi practiced by most big league ball clubs in dealing with their younger players. Go great guns ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 22, 2016
Hiroshima mayor Matsui calls Carp an integral part of city
by Jason Coskrey
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui was there in person at Tokyo Dome to see the Carp capture the Central League pennant. The baseball-mad residents of his city might make it hard for him to do the same should the Carp be on the verge of ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 31, 2016
Fighters face Ruthian dilemma with young star Otani
by Jim Allen
What is a team to do when its best pitcher is also its best run producer? The answer is to have him swing the bat as often as possible — even if the pitcher is 22-year-old Shohei Otani and has a record-setting 163-kph fastball. That, ...
Basketball / NBA | MAN ABOUT SPORTS Apr 19, 2016
Warriors, Kobe serve up unprecedented drama to end season
by Dave Wiggins
Now THAT was one fantastic finish to an NBA regular season. Not even the spoil-sport antics of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg "Sourpuss" Popovich could ruin it (MAS will explain later). Instead of having to snooze through the usual dreary ending to six long months of ...
Baseball | BASEBALL BULLET-IN Feb 27, 2016
Exploring quirky history of season schedules
by Wayne Graczyk
Is a 162-game professional baseball season too long? Is a 143-game schedule too short? Is a 154-game calendar just right? According to a Bleacher Report article by Jacob Shafer last month, this could be the final year for Major League Baseball's 162-game format that has been in ...
Baseball | MAN ABOUT SPORTS Nov 3, 2015
Visit to Cooperstown brings back memories of youth
by Dave Wiggins
Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Check. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Check. Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. MAS can now put a check in that box as well. He recently completed a personal Hall of Fame hat trick by journeying ...
Baseball | BASEBALL BULLET-IN Feb 28, 2015
Flood of retired numbers can lessen significance
by Wayne Graczyk
You probably saw the article last week with the news the New York Yankees will retire the uniform numbers of former players Andy Pettitte (46), Jorge Posada (20) and Bernie Williams (51). That brings to 20 the total of retired numbers by the Yanks, ...
Basketball / NBA | NBA REPORT Nov 25, 2014
Jordan's global impact transcended racial, economic boundaries
by Sam Smith
The Japan Times will be running excerpts from Hall of Fame writer Sam Smith's new book "There Is No Next: NBA Legends on the Legacy of Michael Jordan" over the next few months. This marks the first installment. * * * I began to think of ...