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See the article in its original context from July 31, 1995 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. His fantasy, he said Saturday night as he stood before a trio in a hotel bar, was to sing and play his patched-up, 40-year-old ukulele to an audience the night before his induction into the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. "I really should be practicing my speech," Bob Wolff said. Instead, the onetime voice of the Washington Senators, Knicks and Westminster Kennel Club … [Read more...] about BASEBALL; Wolff: Ukulele Hitter Makes Hall of Fame as Broadcaster

Nearly two months into baseball’s pitch-clock era, you sometimes wonder how the sport ever got so slow. Why did we endure standstill traffic on a ride that could have been much smoother? “It was Red Sox/Yankees — a lot of people in these parts, they certainly know about that,” Scott Servais, the manager of the Seattle Mariners, said with a smile last week before a game at Fenway Park in Boston. “I mean, it was four hours every night. Just a regular 4-2 game was 3 hours and 40 minutes. It’s sped up things a lot.” The game Servais’s team played that night would not evoke the prose of Angell or Updike. Mariners pitchers allowed 12 runs and 16 hits, while Red Sox pitchers issued eight walks. There were two hit batters, three errors, 10 pitchers and 19 runners left on base. Yet it took only 2 hours 57 minutes — faster than the average major league game in each of the last seven seasons. “The first five innings of a game fly by,” Servais said. “We’ve got two or three hits, … [Read more...] about M.L.B.’s New Rules Have Baseball in Overdrive

The Los Angeles Dodgers have indeed proven themselves to be the “Bud Light of Baseball” after backing down to the woke and reinviting the radical, anti-Christian gay and transgender group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to their Pride Night on June 16. Now that the Dodgers have reversed its decision to disinvite the hate group from its gay pride night after acquiescing to Christians who were outraged that the group was set to get a community award at the game, Christians are again mounting efforts to denounce the team for reinviting the LGBTQ group to the game. CatholicVote is vowing to resume its campaign to pressure the Dodgers to distance itself from the hate group after the team went groveling back to reinvite them to their Jun 16 came. “After the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday reinvited an anti-Catholic hate group to be honored at the team’s June 16 LGBTQ+ Pride Night, CatholicVote President Brian Burch vowed to launch a “barrage” of advertising against the team across … [Read more...] about ‘The Dodgers Have Become the Bud Light of Baseball’: CatholicVote Blasts Dodgers for Caving to Anti-Catholic Drag Queens

close Video Fox News Flash top sports headlines for May 25 Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Texas A&M baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle was never a fan of in-game interviews, and his dislike grew into hatred Wednesday. In the bottom of the fourth, SEC Network broadcasters Dave Neal and Ben McDonald were interviewing Schlossnagle during the SEC Tournament when Arkansas infielder Peyton Holt hit what should have been an easy out on a fly ball to right field. While the ball was in flight, Schlossnagle was already uneasy. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Head coach Jim Schlossnagle of the Texas A&M Aggies walks off the field against the Tennessee Volunteers in the sixth inning at Lindsey Nelson Stadium March 26, 2023, in Knoxville, Tenn. (Eakin Howard/Getty Images) "I have bad luck in these interviews," he said. Seconds … [Read more...] about College baseball coach cuts in-game interview short after outfielder misses fly ball

0 Sports Iván Prieto González's defection followed Cuba's loss to the United States in the World Baseball Classic semifinals in Miami. Megan VerHelst , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply MIAMI, FL — Cuban catcher Iván Prieto González defected to the United States this week after his team's loss in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic in Miami, according to multiple reports. Just hours after their loss to Team USA, the Cuban players departed the states Monday on an early-morning flight back to the island, the Miami Herald reported. González, a catcher for the Alazanes de Granma team in Cuba's National Series, was not among them, according to the newspaper. Major League Baseball officials confirmed the defection to USA Today's Bob Nightengale. Politically, defecting is defined as "forsaking one cause, party, or nation for another, often because of a change in ideology." The term can be applied to anyone … [Read more...] about Cuban Catcher Iván Prieto González Defects After Baseball Loss

close Video Fox News Flash top sports headlines for May 28 Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A New York high school baseball sectional championship ended in a brutal way on Saturday. Palmyra-Macedon High School was behind one run and down to their final strike in the ninth inning against Hornell in the Section V Class B1 Championship when the impossible happened. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM The game ball on the mound prior to the game between the Marlins and the Washington Nationals at loanDepot park on May 17, 2023, in Miami, Florida. (Jasen Vinlove/Miami Marlins/Getty Images) Palmyra-Macedon had runners in scoring position when the batter swung and missed at the pitch and was presumably out. However, the pitch appeared to graze the dirt, which meant the catcher had to tag the batter or throw the ball to first to complete the out. … [Read more...] about High school baseball team’s premature celebration leads to brutal loss in sectional championship