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Until expansion came along in 1961, Major League Baseball was usually played in 16 ballparks each season, at most. And with ...

Brandon Nimmo got a chance to go over his breakout performance with New York Mets first base coach Antoan Richardson. With a ...

For some baseball purists, Sammy Sosa’s accomplishments remain tainted. Diluted. The questionable results of a dishonest person from a dirty era in Major League Baseball. “I believe in time ...

LA Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez is from the Dominican Republic, and players there seem to love Sammy Sosa. Hernandez was also one of those kids growing up idolizing Sosa, who played 18 ...

Max McGwire has found a college home at St. Louis University with coach Darin Hendrickson, who used to pitch batting practice ...

Ruth's record of four 50-homer seasons was matched by Mark McGwire, the power-hitting first baseman of the then Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa. The home ...

Pete Crow-Armstrong as leadoff man for the Chicago Cubs is not on Craig Counsell’s to-do list … yet. Crow-Armstrong is a prototypical leadoff man and has been on a tear, ranking third in the majors ...

The right fielder has skills that scream “franchise cornerstone” for, oh, how does a decade sound? But the Cubs are the Cubs, which eventually will make this the ultimate litmus test for the Ricketts ...

The ones topping the career home run chart include Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa, Manny Ramirez, Adrian Beltre, and Vladimir Guerrero Sr. The maximum home runs by a Dominican MLB player is 703 by ...

Sammy! Sammy!” That, of course, refers to former slugger Sammy Sosa, who gave fans some of the best moments of the last 30 years of Cubs baseball but who had also been away from the organization ...

Judge has no equals in MLB. In the past calendar year, he has been 145 percent better than the average hitter.