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English lessons, iPad workouts and home cooking: How MLB teams are helping stranded Venezuelan players
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Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:56
Eighteen of the Washington Nationals' Venezuelan players are staying at a Marriott in West Palm Beach, Florida. The hotel gym shut down to comply with social-distancing mandates; the local park is also closed, forcing players to train in the parking lot.Those players, through a Major League Baseball mandate that applied to all minor leaguers, will receive $400-per-week allowances through at…
Sports icons donate experiences to fight hunger
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:01
Tickets to the Super Bowl. And a game of the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Final. Tickets to the World Series, College Football Playoff National Championship, Daytona 500, Masters, US Open tennis championships, NCAA men's Final Four and Olympic Opening Ceremonies.That's one prize package that Fanatics founder Michael Rubin has offered to tip off the All In Challenge, a virtual…
Ex-Royals, Cubs manager Jim Frey dies at 88
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:13
Former Kansas City Royals and Chicago Cubs manager Jim Frey died Sunday at age 88.Frey died Sunday at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, according to the Atlantic League's Somerset Patriots, the minor league team he had been affiliated with since its launch in 1998. The Patriots did not announce a cause of death."We join the baseball community in…
Yankees co-owner Hank Steinbrenner dies at 63
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020 10:44
NEW YORK -- Hank Steinbrenner, the oldest son of George Steinbrenner and one of the four siblings who own the controlling shares of the New York Yankees, died Tuesday at age 63.The team said he died at home in Clearwater, Florida, due to a long-standing health issue.A chain smoker and miniature drag racer, Hank hoped to succeed his father as…
MLB to celebrate Jackie Robinson day online
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020 07:21
NEW YORK -- Forced from the field by the coronavirus, Major League Baseball is moving its annual celebration of Jackie Robinson online.The Jackie Robinson Foundation is launching a virtual learning hub to coincide with the 73rd anniversary Wednesday of Robinson breaking the major league color barrier.CC Sabathia and Harold Reynolds are among the former major leaguers reading excerpts from a…
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