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MONTREAL -- The game resembled baseball as best an 8-year-olds' skirmish can. The Beloeil Braves and the Boucherville Seigneurs smacked grounders and attempted double plays in full uniform, with batting [...]

Shards of broken beer bottles pop beneath their feet as players from the Dark Side, a recreation-league softball team in the Bronx, mill about their bench early on an August […]

SPRING is the beginning of the baseball season for 750 major leaguers, but for the scouts who scour the nation trying to locate the next generation of players, this is […]

MARK McGWIRE'S eyes lit up as if he'd just seen a down-the-pipe fastball. Expecting yet another, 'Can you hit 70 home runs again?' question-and-answer fest, the St. Louis Cardinals slugger […]

Reports on demands that baseball record holders who cheated should have their statistical accomplishments listed with asterisks. Players Jason Giambi's and Barry Bonds's admission that they used steroids; Development of algorithms to predict how players fade in their 30s, and how this aging process is reflected in their statistics; Need to understand records in the context of their circumstances.

Reports on New York Mets' trading of Scott Kazmir for Victor Zambrano of Tampa Bay. History of baseball pitchers; Career achievements of Zambrano; Pitchers' strikeout and walk rates.

Highlights the 1904 baseball match between the New York Highlanders and the Boston Pilgrims in Boston, Massachusetts. Popularity of the trading of Pilgrims outfielder Patsy Dougherty for Bob Unglaub, as a one-sided trades in baseball; Victory of the Pilgrims over the Highlanders.

The article focuses on the alleged steroid use of professional baseball player Roger Clemens. Attention is given to his handling of the accusations against him. The author reports that Clemens, who is accused by his former personal trainer of taking steroids for several years, has found his reputation as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history at stake. Article topics include his public relations effort to spin the steroid accusations, as well as the controversy surrounding his behavior.

The author reports on the court case against professional baseball player Barry Bonds. Bonds has been charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a federal grand jury. Challenges which law professor James A. Cohen feels that the prosecution will have in trying this case are discussed. The perjury charges which Bonds is facing are in response to Bonds telling federal investigators that he did not take steroids or human growth hormones.

This article discusses the 2007 signing of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens by the New York Yankees baseball team. The 44-year-old Clemens was signed to a contract that will pay him roughly $4.5 million per month, and he is expected to join the Yankees major league roster until June of 2007, if not later.

The article focuses on former baseball player Silas Simmons. The author reviews how Simmons played for the 1913 Homestead Grays, a Pittsburgh-area baseball team that pre-dated the arrival of the Negro Leagues. According to the author, baseball researchers were not aware that Simmons was still alive until a genealogist notified Negro Leagues experts. Simmons is 110-years old.

The article reports on the increase in home runs during April, and questions if the warm weather was a factor. The major league games averaged 9.9 runs on 2.3 home runs. Players hitting homers include David Ortiz, Manny Ramírez, Nick Swisher, Miguel Tejada, Carl Everett, Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols. Texas Rangers' Kevin Mench, who hit seven home runs in April, now has ten. Aaron Heilman, reliever for the Mets, comments on the strong offense strategy in baseball.

This article discusses the World Baseball Classic (W.B.C.) taking place in March, 2006. Teams from sixteen nations will complete, playing games in Arizona, California, Florida, Japan and Puerto Rico. Players from Major League Baseball will be included in the W.B.C. unlike in the Olympics where major league players do not participate. Roger Clemens and Dontrelle Willis are expected to be the top starting pitchers for the U.S.

Focuses on aging baseball players Mike Piazza of the New York Mets and Bernie Williams, center fielder for the New York Yankees. Comments of Piazza and Williams, who were at their peak in 1999; The different ways that the two men have experienced the aging process as they play out the final days of their contracts; Challenge of handling a slow, public decline; Impact of aging on athletes; Views of other ballplayers; Observation that sports players' competitive natures can blind them to the reality of retirement.

A trainer of teenage baseball prospects in the Dominican Republic has been accused by two of his former players of sexually abusing them, adding to a list of recent scandals in the procurement of Latin American talent by Major League Baseball teams. Enrique Soto, one of the most prominent Dominican buscones -- local quasi-coaches who typically receive significant portions of their players' signing bonuses -- has been detained in the town of Bani, a prosecutor told The Associated Press. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

POSTERIOR A pitcher's gluteus maximus is the biggest muscle in his body, said Jeff Cooper, a former head athletic trainer for the Philadelphia Phillies. Strasburg twists the muscle upward during the leg kick, allowing it to load tremendous energy. Unwinding it, along with the untwisting of the pitcher's trunk, brings the shoulder forward and the arm soon thereafter, like a whip. ''Strasburg keeps his hips from rotating until the very last moment, which is a big key for that high ball velocity,'' said David Stodden, an associate professor at Texas Tech University's department of health, exercise and sport sciences. ''It's very good forward momentum.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Only something so heavy could lighten their burden. Three men gripped a 150-pound headstone around the edges, lugged it 40 feet across the grass and lowered it into the dirt. ''Got it?'' the anesthesiologist asked, tilting the slab in gently. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Mamie Johnson feels a kinship with Eri Yoshida, the Japanese female knuckleballer who recently became one of the few women ever to pitch in professional baseball. She nods knowingly at suspicions that Yoshida, the 18-year-old so-called Knuckle Princess, pitches for the far-flung Chico (Calif.) Outlaws less as a competitor than as a curiosity. But when Johnson hears that Yoshida dreams of being the first female pitcher in major league history, she sends a message as high and tight as those she once threw in the Negro leagues. You are crowding her plate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As he stood before the mirror in his Detroit hotel bathroom Wednesday night, Jim Joyce, the major league umpire whose disastrously wrong ''safe!'' call hours before cost a Tigers pitcher and baseball history a perfect game, undoubtedly fantasized about putting toothpaste back in its YouTube. Video replays clearly showed how the Cleveland Indians' Jason Donald was out at first base with two out in the ninth inning in what should have been the final and 27th straight out of a perfect game for the pitcher, Armando Galarraga. The replays were flashing across televisions and computer screens nationwide before Tigers Manager Jim Leyland had even finished arguing with Joyce on the field. But because of major league rules, Joyce himself could not consult those images while his decision could still be reversed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]