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Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Is This Weekend.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two people familiar with the talks tell The Associated Press that Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees have turned down requests to meet with Alex Rodriguez's camp and the union about the embattled star's expected drug penalty.

Major League Baseball has thrown the first dagger in the Biogenesis case. Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun has been suspended by MLB without pay for the remainder of the 2013 season.
This from MLB:  Braun will not contest the suspension which was meted out for "violat…

NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Jeter was back, and the New York Yankees felt a whole lot better.
The Yankees captain singled on his first pitch of the season, scored a run and went 1 for 4 with an RBI groundout in his return from a nine-month layoff to help New York beat the Kansas City Royals 8-4 Thurs…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins have watched Mariano Rivera break a lot of their bats over the years. On Tuesday they presented the New York Yankees closer with a gift that captured Rivera's dominance.

This is a great clip I just had to show you. New York Yankee legends Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron and Mickey Mantle SING on the Ed Sullivan Show (1958).
Suffice to say...they performed a lot better on the baseball diamond than they did singing...

As the New York Yankees entered today's game at Progressive Field, some fans were already starting to worry about Robinson Cano's lack of production at the plate, just one week into the season. But today, Cano silenced his doubters for now by blasting a pair of homers, along with a double …

You could argue that if you were to give a theme to the 2013 season for the New York Yankees, it would probably be "the good, the bad and the ugly." This afternoon's game at Comerica Park in Detroit was a perfect example of that theme, as the Yankees dropped the opener of a th…

An amazing effort that many still say we will never see again.
Don Larsen is still around at age 83.  This year he announced that he was auctioning off the uniform he wore when he pitched his World Series perfect game.  Why would he do this?
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