It's not too often when you play professional baseball that you get make a career out of it. For some it's one-shot-and-your-out. For some players, if they're lucky, they get to the majors out of the minor leagues for a few games. For some they have the talent to move into the majors and they make an impact on the game. One of those individuals will be honored by the St. Louis Cardinals on July 31. His name is Ted Simmons.
Is the glass half full or is it half empty? You've heard this saying before. Of course, it depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist. As far as the Kansas City Royals go this year, I'm optimistically looking at the the MLB Power rankings, and I'm feeling more like a pessimist right now after seeing them!
I guess you could say looking back to the year 1979, the Kansas City Royals had a part in sports history as two players they could have signed wound up with NFL Hall-of-Fame careers. So what would have happened if they chose pro baseball over pro football?
Major League Baseball unilaterally set a sixty game season under the terms MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association agreed upon on March 26.
The Los Angeles Dodgers face the Houston Astros in what is a genuine clash of baseball titans, the winner without doubt deserving the title of World Champion.
Addison Russell drove in four runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals, 9-8, to win the decisive Game 5 of the 2017 National League Division Series in D.C. on Thursday night.