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When Dee Gordon agreed to open up some 1992 Topps with us for this week’s installment of 25-Year-Old Baseball Cards it was fairly obvious we had one mission and one mission only: To find his dad. Tom Gordon, as you might remember, was a star relief pitcher Continue to Article

June 08, 2017 5:18:pm EST

An hour or so before Royals games, the press room in the basement of Kauffman Stadium serves as a virtual green room where performers and honorees gather before moving out to the field. Here on Sunday was a dose of sheer Americana: a color guard and national anthem singer Willa Walberg and the Chevy Kids about to experience the thrill of taking the field with Royals position players. Sitting quietly among them was a couple about to see its first baseball game, Balakrishna and Varalakshmi Dumala of India, a land where cricket and field hockey are the sports of choice. Surely, they would be baffled by the game they were about to see. “They don’t know anything about it,” their daughter, Sunayana, Continue to Article

June 04, 2017 7:58:pm EST

They're not dead yet in either the division or wild card races—sitting 5 1/2 games back in each—but the Royals are in transition, with core players like outfielder Lorenzo Cain, first baseman Eric Hosmer and third baseman Mike Moustakas all pending free Continue to Article

June 01, 2017 5:00:pm EST

SAN FRANCISCO — Nationals slugger Bryce Harper and San Francisco reliever Hunter Strickland both landed punches to the head during a wild brawl that erupted Monday after a hit by pitch. Harper was hit in the right hip by Strickland’s 98 mph fastball in the eighth inning with Washington ahead 2-0. Harper pointed the bat toward Strickland, charged the mound and fired his batting helmet wide of the pitcher. They started to swing away and they each connected as the benches and bullpens emptied. At least two Giants players forcefully dragged Strickland from the middle of the brawl all the way into the dugout. Harper and Strickland were both ejected. In the 2014 NL Division Series, Harper hit two home Continue to Article

May 29, 2017 8:14:pm EST