Do you remember where you were Sept. 14, 1994, the night the World Series was canceled?New York-based Rob Manfred, a lead negotiator for the owners, does.“I was actually in Pittsburgh, I think for a wedding,” Manfred said. “I learned on a conference call it was going to be ...
It was 1970, at the College World Series, where I signed my first autograph. I’ll never forget it: Our Ohio University team had just beaten No. 1-ranked USC in game one, and I was asked to sign a ball on the way to our bus.What a high. Not the victory, but the elevation to celebrity status. ...
Nowhere in the stories written about Donald Fehr’s decision to step down as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association did it say that one of his assistants has very definite opinions on Danielle McCray’s game and how Aishah Sutherland’s athleticism helped the ...
On Wednesday, the second day of the 2009 Major League Baseball amateur draft, Kansas University shortstop David Narodowski learned of his professional fate much the way baseball fans across the country did — by calling up MLB.com’s live draft tracker and watching the drama play out one pick ...
Five Kansas University baseball players were selected by major-league organizations in the second day of the Major League Baseball first-year player draft. Left-handed pitcher Sam Freeman (St. Louis), outfielder Ryne Price (San Francisco), left-handed pitcher Nick Czyz (Seattle), right-handed ...
Five KU baseball players were drafted on day two of the Major League draft.
Former Kansas University baseball player Travis Metcalf was optioned Wednesday to the Texas Rangers' Triple-A farm club in Oklahoma City.Metcalf began the season on the disabled list with a left hamstring tear and appeared in one game after being activated on May 8.
Former Kansas University pitcher Mike Zagurski will open the baseball season on the Philadelphia Phillies' 15-day disabled list.Zagurski, a left-handed reliever, underwent hamstring surgery last August and is still rehabbing. Zagurski has thrown off the mound this spring, but has not appeared ...
