The New York Yankees will have to make do without Hideki Matsui for the last week of the season. Instead of travelling with his teammates to Toronto for a series against the Blue Jays, the Yankees slugger will have surgery on his ailing left knee

If the New York Mets don't make the playoffs this season, the scale of their collapse won't approach last season's. Expectations should have been lower based on the early part of the season. But that doesn't necessarily make the current situation any

Ripken Baseball Inc., the holding company for the Iron Mans business ventures, purchased the Tampa Bay Rays Class A affiliate in the Florida State League. The company will move the team from Vero Beach to Floridas west coast where it will play in Port

First, the polemic: The game tonight between the Yankees and Orioles will close the second Yankee Stadium. Yankee Stadium I was opened on April 18, 1923, and was closed on Sept. 30, 1973. After a complete gutting of the structure and a thorough reworking

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From our offices in Manhattan, we look out on the tall, gleaming skyscrapers that are cathedrals of wealth and power -- the Olympus ruled by the gods of finance, the temples of the mighty, the holy of holies, whose priests guard the sacred texts of

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I've been a beat writer on two teams that landed in the World Series, the 2000 Mets who played the Yankees in the Subway Series and the 2005 Astros. It was quite amazing to cover those runs, just a step above that great run we saw in 2004. But as much as

ESPN.com news services With 127 wins and 127 losses, Javier Vazquez's merit as a Hall of Fame pitcher won't be hotly debated when the 11-year veteran retires. But Ozzie Guillen isn't going that far. Guillen just points to the right-hander's past

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