Baseball

Minor Leaguer Takes Mature Strides To Become Better

Russell Lewis — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:27:00 +0000

Tyler Saladino is one of thousands of minor league baseball players hoping to make it to the major leagues. He plays in Alabama for the Birmingham Barons, the AA affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. Last year, NPR profiled Saladino. But since then, maybe things have changed for the 23-year-old infielder.

One of the biggest changes this year is where the Barons and Saladino play.

Baseball Prepares For Suspensions

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:02:00 +0000

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TESS VIGELAND, HOST:

Major League Baseball is preparing to hand down suspensions to some of its marquee players according to a recent ESPN report. It's the result of information the league obtained through a man named Tony Bosch, who reportedly supplied banned substances to athletes through his company Biogenesis of America.

Dave Zirin is sports editor for The Nation, and he joins us. Hello.

DAVE ZIRIN: Hey. Great to be here.

Do You Care If Ball Players Use Steroids? Polls Say Fans Do

Mark Memmott — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:23:00 +0000

ESPN's big scoop of the day — that Major League Baseball "will seek to suspend about 20 players connected to the Miami-area clinic at the heart of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal" — raises a logical question:

Do fans care?

PollingReport.com has collected the results of some surveys, including:

-- A ESPN's Outside the Lines reports.

"If the suspensions are upheld," ESPN adds, "the performance-enhancing drug scandal would be the largest in American sports history."

VIDEO: Yankees And Red Sox Flinch As Lightning Strikes

Mark Memmott — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:17:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceySrpVU60