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Baseball notebook: Upsets jumble District 5-4A standings
The wild and wacky world of District 5-4A baseball continued on Wednesday night with two upset victories with late-inning heroics. Lake Dallas came from five runs down to stun first-place Wichita Falls Rider in 10 innings, and Denton continued to play the spoiler role when it scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to surprise The Colony.

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Longtime Baseball Announcer Don Cook Dies
A man who dedicated years of his life to announcing baseball games in the Kanawha Valley has died.

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Arizona State self-imposes sanctions on baseball program
Arizona State is vacating 44 of its 49 victories from the 2007 baseball season and will be reducing scholarships as part of self-imposed sanctions for violating NCAA rules.

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PlayStation 3 to Stream Pro Baseball Live
Mark your calendars baseball buffs, because Sony’s bringing Major League Baseball to the PlayStation 3 and you’ll be able to sign up for the service by the end of this week.

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INSIDE THE BRD: Live blog from Tabb-York baseball Friday afternoon
Game time 4:30 p.m., and with second place in the Bay Rivers District potentially bringing a Region I baseball tournament berth, this game is a big way to start the second half of the league season.

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Peoria Sports Complex hosts baseball tourney
Arizona Interscholastic Association High School Baseball State Tournament has begun.

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Baseball remembers, honors Jackie Robinson
NEW YORK (AP) — On Jackie Robinson Day, all of baseball joined Yankees closer Mariano Rivera in wearing the cherished No. 42.

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Padres honor Jackie and his post-baseball life
Padres honor Jackie and his post-baseball life

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Fewer black baseball players
Major League Baseball players Thursday wore Jackie Robinson ’s number 42, but 63 years after the game’s color barrier was broken, African Americans make up only 9.5 percent of opening-day rosters.MLB had its first increase in African-American players in 15 years in 2009 when the number climbed to 10.2 percent. This year, though, there were 17 teams with two or fewer African-American players on …

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Friday fun: Baseball’s biggest belly?
Frank Thomas, during his time, was “The Big Hurt.” David Letterman once anointed Terry Forster “A Fat Tub of Goo.” Tommy Lasorda, for one glorious era, was, how best to put this, “Tummy Lasorda?” Baseball has a long – or perhaps, a wide –…

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