The Dodgers were the first sports team I paid attention to, and I can’t help but follow them … even though that World Series drought is up to 20 years now and the club is owned by Bostonians more interested in the club as a real estate venture than as a successful sports team. I […]

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Some great names in the major leagues. Some just roll off the tongue. Others conjure an image, often not flattering. Some make me smile. After examining all 30 big-league rosters, these are the 10 best baseball names I came up with … and the competition was fierce.

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We like to think the Dodgers and Giants compare, but they don’t. Not over the past 20 years. This Bombers-BoSox stuff is so crazy, fans are trying to put hexes on each other. If you didn’t see this story about the construction worker leaving behind a Red Sox jersey in the foundation of the new […]

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The Dodgers are playing a softball-style defense. Center fielder Andruw Jones is playing directly behind second base, giving the Dodgers five infielders, basically. Don’t know if Jones can pick up a ground ball or turn a doubleplay. He hasn’t had to so far, and it’s the bottom of the third. The Boston defense? More typical, […]

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The Dodgers were hoping for a crowd of 115,000 — the biggest ever to see a baseball game. The record of some 114,000 apparently was set in Australia during the 1956 Olympics. The place is stuffed with people, including thousands milling around the east end of the stadium floor, where that bank of bleachers sits […]

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The venerable Sun Baseball League conducted its 26th annual draft last night, and I’m sure you all are dying to know how a batch of current and former sports journalists divvied up the talent. Here is the first round:

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