Hank Aaron

Going, going ... Barry Bonds' home run plaque at AT&T Park gone

2013-04-24 10:43:00

A commemorative plaque honoring Barry Bonds’ record-breaking 756th home run hanging at the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park has vanished. CBS and other Bay Area media affiliates are reporting the plaque vanished sometime in the last few days....

S.F. Giants to replace Barry Bonds home run sign that 'disappeared'

2013-04-24 14:35:00

Things vanish and are replaced at the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park all the time, so a lost Barry Bonds commemorative plaque shouldn’t be a big deal, a team spokeswoman said Wednesday. “It’s a stadium with 41,000 people, things...

Hall of Famer Rich 'Goose' Gossage applauds Cooperstown shutout

2013-01-09 18:06:00

Rich “Goose” Gossage cut an intimidating figure on the mound with his sinister-looking Fu Manchu mustache and blazing fastball, and at 61, he can still fire a few high, hard ones, as he showed after Wednesday’s Hall of Fame vote, in...

Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency

2012-11-28 00:00:00

Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...

Tom House gets calls from quarterbacks

2012-09-13 19:16:00

Tom House spent eight years in the majors as a relief pitcher, but he is best remembered for catching Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run. The ball sailed over the fence and into the bullpen, and House ran under it. Now, almost four decades later...

Vin Scully, pitch perfect for the Dodgers

2012-07-11 00:00:00

Oh, that voice! It comes out of the TV, it comes out of the radio, it comes out of the man sitting across from me in the cafe behind the press box at Dodger Stadium. Courtly and indefatigable, Vin Scully has been calling Dodger games since Harry Truman...

Smaller legs of world cruises can be a deal

2012-01-22 00:00:00

The British couple — she in a long black dress, he in a traditional tux — leaned against the elevator's polished wood paneling as they headed back to their cabin after an evening performance in the main showroom. Embarrassed at my casual...

Book Review: 'Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias'

2011-07-10 00:00:00

Wonder Girl The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias Don Van Natta Jr. Little, Brown: 404 pp., $27.99 So do you know who made the Top 10 when ESPN chose its 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century? Here they are: (1) Michael Jordan....

Barry Larkin chosen to baseball Hall of Fame

2012-01-09 16:55:00

'The Amazing Race' finale recap: the best premarital counseling

2011-12-12 16:35:49

Why so many Hollywood relationship movies are box-office duds

2011-12-28 16:37:19

Angels making pitch for reliever Francisco Cordero

2012-01-23 16:33:45

Hank Aaron

2012-08-16 00:00:00

Hank Aaron tribute

2012-06-15 00:00:00

Fellow Hall of Famer Hank Aaron , right, sits with Frank Robinson during a ceremony to honor Robinson and unveil a statue of him at Camden Yards .

2012-04-28 00:00:00