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Howe released from hospital amid virus battle
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Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:48
Former major league player and manager Art Howe was released from a hospital in Houston on Sunday after spending time in intensive care last week with the coronavirus."Relief, back in my own bedroom, it's just sweet," he told multiple media outlets. "It was a long five days or so. I'm finally feeling a little bit better. Still not able to…
Two drown at home of former Dodger Crawford
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Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:28
HOUSTON -- A 5-year-old boy and a woman drowned Saturday in the backyard pool of a Houston home that reportedly belongs to former Dodger Carl Crawford, police said Sunday.Houston police were called at about 2:40 p.m. Saturday for a reported drowning at a north Houston home that property and business records list as belonging to Crawford, The Houston Chronicle reported.Police…
Olney: Tony Clark, MLB players might be able to break standoff by thinking big picture
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Sunday, 17 May 2020 11:49
By saying he will not play this season for a reduced salary, Rays starter Blake Snell triggered a cacophony of angry responses the other day -- a tidal wave of social media backlash, talk-show lectures (delivered from here, among other lecterns) and, under the radar, expressions of disgust from some of Snell's peers who are more affixed to national job…
The immensity of MLB's plan to return through a daunting health-and-safety protocol
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Sunday, 17 May 2020 08:55
What's most striking about Major League Baseball's 67-page health-and-safety protocol outlining an attempt to return amid the coronavirus pandemic isn't its little, snicker-worthy details -- that players won't be able to take Ubers and can't stand shoulder-to-shoulder for the national anthem and, gulp, will be discouraged from postgame showers. It isn't the granularity of the plan, all the way down…
Why baseball players wear the numbers they wear
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Sunday, 17 May 2020 06:48
You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we'll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history.ON THIS DATE IN 1948, the 17th day of the month, Carlos May was born. The number mattered.He was a good hitter for several years, the brother of Lee May. But…
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