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Dodgers Web musings: Dodgers-for-sale edition

2011-11-03 16:36:20

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Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Bonds-bashing: bad sport

2007-05-20 00:00:00

IT TAKES QUITE THE sportsman to inspire a call for a "smiting." But Barry Bonds, closing in on Henry Aaron's all-time home run record, might just be the first jock since the young Cassius Clay to inspire such biblical animus. In her regular ESPN.com...

Jackie Robinson can't sub for Barry Bonds

2007-04-14 00:00:00

April 15, by decree of Major League Baseball, will be Jackie Robinson Day. On Sunday, a player on each big league team will be designated to wear Robinson's uniform number, 42. The Dodgers, Robinson's club in its Brooklyn incarnation, intend to go one...

THE BIG PICTURE: In the strike, the studios are playing to win

2007-12-11 00:00:00

DESPITE what they say about global warming, it's going to be a long, cold winter for the writers of Hollywood. The studios pretty much made it official Friday, when they walked away from the negotiating table after giving the Writers Guild an abrupt...

Dodgers sign catcher named in Mitchell Report

2007-12-18 00:00:00

The Dodgers became the first team to sign a player named in former Sen. George Mitchell's report on performance-enhancing drugs since it was released last week, as backup catcher Gary Bennett on Monday agreed to a one-year contract with an option for a...

Scoreboard

2011-01-06 01:30:42

TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...

Highlights Of George Steinbrenner's Career As Owner Of The New York Yankees

2010-07-13 11:23:23

Jan. 3, 1973 - Heads group that purchases Yankees from CBS Inc. Sept. 30, 1973 - Manager Ralph Houk resigns, the first of 20 managerial changes under Steinbrenner through 1995. Aug. 30, 1974 - Fined $15,000 by U.S. District Court in Cleveland...

'Ball Four' part of local display

2010-08-10 16:27:14

The Baseball Reliquary has enjoyed an ongoing association with the Burbank Central Library. For a number of years, the library has hosted a variety of baseball-related events and displays put on by the San Gabriel Valley-based organization. The...

President's first pitch: 100 years later

2010-04-05 16:24:14

by Mark Silva and updated 100 years ago, it was William Howard Taft, right-hander. 100 years ago, it was the Washington Senators. Today, it was Barack Obama, south paw. Today, it was the Washington Nationals. In his time, Harry Truman......

'Viva Le Brooks!'

2007-07-22 00:00:00

Twenty-four years ago, the Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed an Oriole known simply by his first name - a balding infielder who defined his position and bled orange all his life. Next week, Cooperstown, N.Y., will do this again. And like Brooks Robinson...

O's Series hero was prankster, too

2006-06-11 00:00:00

Former pitcher Moe Drabowsky, a fun-loving prankster who became an Orioles World Series hero, died yesterday at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. Drabowsky, 70,...

Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn , center, smiles with Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky Anderson , left, and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner at Shea Stadium in January 1977. See full story

2010-11-04 16:00:33

Anderson holds the World Championship Trophy at a rally in downtown Cincinnati after the Reds win the 1975 World Series.

2010-11-04 15:59:44

The Dodgers general manager told Nightline s Ted Koppel on opening day in 1987 that blacks "may not have some of the necessities to be a field manager or general manager" in Major League Baseball.

2010-06-25 17:32:39