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Remember the prevailing thought among fans that Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was going to be a bust? How could the Dodgers give him a 12-year, $325 million deal without throwing a pitch in the ...

Plus Gene Garber angered Pete Rose, Kevin Cash on pitch counts, 1966 Gary Peters, Mike Aldrete on Mike Scott, facts and stats galore, and more.

The harsh gods of baseball have rained heavy blows upon me in recent years by stripping the name and emblem from a Cleveland team I’d been part of all my life. Next, Oakland’s owners are shipping the A’s to a foreign land.  I’d adopt Detroit as my team but fear its plane would crash mid-season. […]

Damaso Garcia would have been 67 today. He was born in Moca, Dominica Republic. As a young man, he was more into soccer than baseball. He was captain of the Dominican Republic’s national football...

For nearly 50 years, John Adams beat the same drum at Cleveland baseball games. Now that drum has a new home at the baseball Hall of Fame.

By the time I knew enough to know where I was but not how I got there, I was four years old and living in Cleveland, Ohio. I probably shrugged at the news.  You will excuse me.  As the years rolled by I learned that life in Cleveland imposed obligations on its residents, some of […]

The music business has one-hit wonders. On the baseball diamond, we have one-season wonders: players who put together a memorable year and then were either unable to build off that time or were essentially never heard from again.

Damaso Garcia would have been 66 today. He was born in Moca, Dominica Republic. As a young man, he was more into soccer than baseball. He was captain of the Dominican Republic's national football...

The 1980 AL Rookie of the Year is accused of kicking his wife and shoving her to the ground.

Former Cleveland Indian Joe Charboneau was arrested in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident against his wife at a bar in Berea on Aug. 12, according to a report from Berea PD.