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• Willie Mays, ‘Poetry on the Diamond’

  19-06-2024 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Readers pay tribute to the beloved Giants great, who died on Tuesday.
  
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• Oakland A’s Settle Into Sacramento as Just The A’s

  31-03-2025 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Athletics temporarily moved to California’s capital region, but insisted on avoiding references to Sacramento. Residents, who are thrilled to have M.L.B. games, are used to such slights.
  
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• San Francisco Giants Sells Stake to Private Equity Firm Sixth Street

  18-03-2025 13:16 via nytimes.com
  
  One of Major League Baseball’s biggest franchises sells 10 percent of the team to Sixth Street Partners.
  
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• Russia Pounds Wide Swath of Ukraine, and F.T.C. Fights Grocery Merger

  27-08-2024 12:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Plus, the rock band Oasis is back.
  
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• Orlando Cepeda, Baseball Star Known as the Baby Bull, Dies at 86

  29-06-2024 13:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Only the second Puerto Rican native elected to the Hall of Fame, he hit 379 home runs but later served time in prison on a drug-smuggling charge.
  
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• Orlando Cepeda, Baseball Slugger Known as the Baby Bull, Dies at 86

  29-06-2024 07:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Only the second Puerto Rican native elected to the Hall of Fame, he hit 379 home runs but later served time in prison on a drug-smuggling charge.
  
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• At Rickwood Field, Willie Mays Is the Star of the Show, One More Time

  21-06-2024 05:01 via nytimes.com
  
  On a night that honored the Negro leagues and Mays, who died on Tuesday, a baseball game between the Giants and the Cardinals was almost beside the point.
  
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• M.L.B. Comes to Willie Mays’s Hometown on a Mission of Love for the Game

  21-06-2024 01:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Baseball hopes a celebration of its past in the home of one of its legends will attract more African American athletes, who are playing the sport in decreasing numbers.
  
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• Major League Baseball Came to Birmingham. Then Willie Mays Died.

  20-06-2024 21:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Baseball hopes a celebration of its past in the home of one of its legends will attract more African American athletes, who are playing the sport in decreasing numbers.
  
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• La carrera de Willie Mays, un mito en las Grandes Ligas

  20-06-2024 00:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Las estadísticas y los premios solo cuentan una parte de su historia. Lo que lo distinguió fue cómo doblegó los límites del béisbol a su voluntad con su inteligencia, su velocidad, su estilo y su poder.
  
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• Willie Mays, Birmingham and Rickwood Field: Baseball Honors a Legend in His Hometown

  19-06-2024 23:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Major League Baseball is in Birmingham to honor the legacy of the Negro Leagues. With Mays’s death, the celebration at ancient Rickwood Field takes on new meaning.
  
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• Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93

  19-06-2024 07:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was the game’s exuberant embodiment of the complete player. Some say he was the greatest of them all.
  
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• Willie Mays, Electrifying Ballplayer of Power and Grace, Dies at 93

  19-06-2024 03:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was baseball’s exuberant embodiment of the complete player. Some say he was the greatest of them all.
  
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• Remembering Willie Mays as Both Untouchable and Human

  19-06-2024 03:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Mays, who died on Tuesday at 93, had been perfect for so long that the shock of seeing baseball get the best of him was the shock of seeing a god become mortal.
  
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• Willie Mays, Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Dies at 93

  19-06-2024 03:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was the exuberant embodiment of the complete ballplayer. Some say he was the greatest of them all.
  
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• O.J. Simpson, NFL Star Acquitted of Murder, Dies of Cancer at 76

  11-04-2024 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America.
  
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• O.J. Simpson Dies of Cancer at 76

  11-04-2024 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America.
  
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• O.J. Simpson, Football Star Acquitted of Murder, Dies of Cancer at 76

  11-04-2024 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America.
  
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• O. J. Simpson, el atleta cuyo juicio cautivó la atención de EE. UU., muere a los 76 años

  11-04-2024 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Saltó a la fama en el campo de fútbol americano y amasó fortunas en el cine. Pero el juicio en el que se le acusó de asesinar a su exesposa y a uno de sus amigos lo cambió todo.
  
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• O.J. Simpson, Athlete Acquitted of Murder, Dies of Cancer at 76

  11-04-2024 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America.
  
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• O.J. Simpson, el atleta cuyo juicio cautivó la atención de EE. UU., muere a los 76 años

  11-04-2024 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Saltó a la fama en el campo de fútbol americano y amasó fortunas en el cine. Pero el juicio en el que se le acusó de asesinar a su exesposa y a uno de sus amigos lo cambió todo.
  
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• Can Minor League Baseball Survive Its Real Estate Problems?

  07-04-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The fight over a new stadium for the Eugene Emeralds highlights a wider challenge for cheaper alternatives to big-league live sports.
  
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• Being a Sports Fan Means Learning to Live With Losing

  25-02-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Spring training means new hope for a glorious season. But for me, it’s the prospect of losing that keeps me hooked.
  
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• A’s Will Finally Turn Out the Lights on Pro Sports in Oakland

  17-11-2023 17:41 via nytimes.com
  With baseball owners approving the Athletics’ move to Las Vegas, some see the departure as the death of the working-class sports fan.
  
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• How Tim Flannery, the Giants Coach, Got Back to Writing Songs

  14-09-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tim Flannery’s rollicking life as an athlete and a musician was nearly cut short by a staph infection. But one of baseball’s most unlikely characters found his way back.
  
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• Alex Cobb of the Giants Throws 131 Pitches in a One-Hitter

  30-08-2023 15:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Alex Cobb of the San Francisco Giants gave up a hit with two outs in the ninth but finished what he started. It was the most pitches in a game since 2019.
  
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• Mets walk 3 batters, hit 2 and make 1 error in 8th-inning meltdown and lose 7-6 to Phillies

  26-06-2023 04:49
  
  Brett Baty hesitated getting the ball out of his glove. Josh Walker failed to throw the ball over the plate. Jeff Brigham threw his baseballs directly at Phillies hitters.
  
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• Reds release outfielder Will Myers

  24-06-2023 19:53
  
  The Cincinnati Reds released outfielder Wil Myers on Friday, three days after designating him for assignment.
  
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• Giants place OF Mike Yastrzemski on injured list with strained left hamstring

  24-06-2023 18:57
  
  San Francisco Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski was placed on the 10-day injured list Friday with a strained left hamstring strain.
  
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• Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr elected to start in MLB All-Star Game

  23-06-2023 22:05
  
  Two-way star Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. were elected Thursday to start in the July 11 All-Star Game at Seattle's Safeco Field.
  
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