A Mickey Mantle baseball card has shattered a five-month-old record for highest-selling sports card of all time, going for $5.2 million, PWCC Marketplace announced on Thursday.The 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 9 -- PSA is a grading system that ranges from 1-10 -- took the record from a one-of-one Mike Trout rookie that sold for $3.94 million in August. It's…

After a season ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, amidst a precedent-setting, slow-moving free-agency period, against the backdrop of MLB revenues in sharp decline, with multiple clubs nakedly dumping payroll and a bitter CBA fight on the horizon, baseball could use a purely positive story.Fernando Tatis Jr., the emphatic, electrifying, marketable 22-year-old budding superstar shortstop of the going-for-it San Diego Padres,…

Right-handed reliever Pedro Baez has agreed to a two-year contract with the Houston Astros, sources confirmed to ESPN's Jeff Passan.The deal includes an option, sources said, and has a number of escalators and a buyout. It is expected to fall in the $12-14 million guaranteed range.Baez, 32, finished the 2020 season as the third-longest-tenured member of the Los Angeles Dodgers…

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball is suspending all political contributions in the wake of last week's invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob loyal to President Donald Trump, joining a wave of major corporations rethinking their efforts to lobby Washington."In light of the unprecedented events last week at the U.S. Capitol, MLB is suspending contributions from its Political…