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At the eastern side of Penn State’s campus across Porter Road from Beaver Stadium sits Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The stadium has 5,570 seats and has been the home of the Penn State baseball team and the State College Spikes since it opened on June 20, 2006. What might be most impressive about Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, though, is the story of how it came to be. “I never envisioned the field as it stands today,” said former Penn State baseball player and alumnus Anthony Lubrano. Lubrano says the plan for the field was born from a comment that he made to then-Penn State athletic di...

SMU alum and Coaching & Player Development Assistant for the Pittsburgh Pirates Jake Mencacci (right) poses with Miguel Perez, a friend and mentor who served as his manager in Greensboro, N.C.. The photo is taken when Perez won the Chuck Tanner Award in 2020 for the most outstanding coach. Former Cardinal finds dream job with Pirates (4/14/2021)   Jake Mencacci (class of 2018) grew up with either a baseball glove or a hockey stick in his hand. When he came to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, he served as catcher on the Cardinal baseball team while study...

share-square-1464788 The Indians’ focus is on the task at hand, as the club arrived in Chicago for a four-game series against the White Sox on Monday. But in a stretch of 10 games without a day off, it’s impossible not to plan ahead. With three games slated to be played in a National League park this weekend in Cincinnati, what will Cleveland do about losing Franmil Reyes’ DH spot? Indians manager Terry Francona said the slugger has been taking some fly balls in the outfield so he's ready (most likely in right field). “We also have [right fielder Josh] Naylor taking ground balls at fi...

We need a much, much bigger sample to get to any conclusive points, but there is one way in which I like what we’ve seen so far from the Cubs: if things continued this way, it would certainly make incontrovertibly clear some of the paths the Cubs need to take as an organization. The last 18-24-36 months have left the Cubs with a lot more questions than answers, and sometimes the games answer those questions for you. I’d much rather get clear answers – even if bad ones – than keep farting through the limbo we’ve seen seen with this team for a long time. Or maybe that’s just me in t...

Veteran infielder Jedd Gyorko has been named as manager of the West Virginia Black Bears, one of six teams in …