Manny Acta

NEW YORK - LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball. And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson...

No. 20 Indians: No. 11 in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Rockies. If the Cubs could, they would run, not walk, away from the last three years of Alfonso Soriano's contract. The Orioles would do the same with the two left on Brian...

Former Oriole outfielder Felix Pie is officially leaving the organization for another American League club. Pie has agreed to terms on a minor league deal and spring invite with the Cleveland Indians, according to an industry source. The 26-year-old...

Mark Buehrle rolls on. He's headed toward both the last turn in what has been one of his best seasons and a chance to go on the free-agent market this winter. But Buehrle is only one of five elite left-handers who could control his fate in the next 16...

Whispers Angels reliever Scott Downs, a former Blue Jay, spoke for a lot of people in Toronto when he trashed the ESPN story speculating that sign stealing at the Rogers Centre has helped Jose Bautista establish himself as one of baseball's best hitters....

Miguel Olivo runs pretty well for a catcher, and the 225-pound veteran needed every bit of momentum he could generate as he slid home with the winning run on Franklin Gutierrez's sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning to put the Mariners in position...

While an earthquake rumbled through Progressive Field midway through the third inning of Tuesday's opening game of a doubleheader between the Mariners and Indians, the biggest tremors came in a wild ninth inning as Cleveland came from behind for a 7-5...

Justin Verlander showed Wednesday he is still human. The verdict is still out on Victor Martinez. On an afternoon when Verlander gave up a pair of two-run home runs to Shelley Duncan, Martinez put the fireballer back in front with a seventh-inning...

TV SPORTS Auto Racing-NASCAR Nationwide Series, OneMain Financial 200, 11:30 a.m. (ESPN2); NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA 400 final practice, 1:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Major League Baseball-Playoffs, Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers, 4 p.m. (TBS); Detroit Tigers at New...

The psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch once said "the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth." It's in that spirit that we conclude Curtis Granderson should be the American League's first-half Most Valuable Player. A crowd of players...

Orioles right-hander Alfredo Simon can’t be sure when he’ll next pitch in a major league game, or even when he’ll be back on U.S. soil. On Saturday night, he threw like a man wanting to leave a lasting impression while helping the...