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Major league teams have released hundreds of young players with the minor league season in doubt due to the coronavirus pandemic

Ed Howard is a pretty good bowler. His best score is 225. Of course, compared to his sister Capri, that 225 doesn’t look like anything special. “She definitely got me on the bowling,” Howard said. “She bowled a 300 in high school, so that’s pretty impressive.” Fortunately for the 18 year-old, he’s got a fallback sport: baseball. And it’s a…

Youth sports organizers are faced with the question of when to return to play as parts of the country begin to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bill Melton, who worked with Jordan on his swing, and Curt Bloom, who called Jordan’s games for the Birmingham Barons, remember His Airness on the diamond.

AP source: MLB owners approve giving players’ union plan to start season around Fourth of July in ballparks without fans

Just 0.7% of Major League Baseball employees tested positive for antibodies to COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.

A pair of fans in New York sued Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the 30 teams, asking for their money back for tickets and for certification of class-action status.

Professional baseball season has begun in Taiwan but with no fans. To help prevent the spread of coronavirus, the games are being played in empty stadiums with cardboard cut-outs of fans.

On a recent sunny day, Derek Salata and Ryan Cermak got together to play catch at a park in suburban Westchester. These days, it’s the closest the two Illinois State baseball players can get to playing a game. “It’s weird and it’s something that’ll never happen in your lifetime again,” Cermak said. “Just knowing that a baseball season —...

The start of the Major League Baseball season typically signals the arrival of spring in Chicago, and while we’re starting to feel the familiar warmth and see a few signs of the largely homebound city awakening from dormancy, we’re also robbed of the livelihood America’s pastime brings to the North and South Sides with the season delayed over coronavirus...

Baseball’s final qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics has been postponed from April to June because of concerns over the virus outbreak

Five Chicago-area children with health challenges are leaving Thursday for an unforgettable trip.

On Wednesday morning White Sox pitchers and catchers held their first workout of the spring, James McCann stood in the hallway outside the team’s Camelback Ranch locker room. It took all of two questions before the All-Star catcher made a bold statement about what he and his teammates believe they can accomplish. “If I said we weren’t trying to...

Police in Chicago’s South Suburbs have launched an investigation following a video of a YouTube sting. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Baseball is Connor Riley’s love and passion, and since he’s a minor league pitcher in the Los Angeles Angels organization, it’s also his job. So when the Aurora-native’s right shoulder was slow to recover after surgery in May of 2018, he felt demoralized. “I felt like I was a bug caught in a spiders web,” Riley said. “That’s how...

A state of the art local facility is helping athletes get back in the game by using incredible technology. NBC 5’s Mike Berman has the details.

It’s been more than a decade since the White Sox last played in the postseason (2008), but as a sold out SoxFest kicked off at McCormick Place, there’s realistic hope the 2020 team can end that drought. A day after manager Rick Renteria made headlines for saying he’d be disappointed if his team didn’t make the playoffs, some of...

The Captain has gotten the call to Cooperstown — but it was not unanimous. Derek Jeter was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday. Tim Mead, President of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, announced the 2020 induction class — a distinguished class of two comprised of Jeter and outfielder Larry Walker. “I was speechless when I got…

Journeyman pitcher Don Larsen has died at the age of 90. Larsen threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.