Tim Salmon

Randy Johnson left many special memories in Seattle. On Friday night, he was hoping to get closer to another special moment by facing his old team. When Johnson left Seattle for Houston at the trade deadline in 1998, he was the most dominant left-...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - There must be some mistake. The real Magic Kingdom has always been a couple of miles farther up Katella Avenue, and it was always some sports hero in another city who got to shout about going there after the World Series. Never the...

Jon Garland was nearly traded to Anaheim last winter before the Angels nixed the deal at the last minute. Garland, the Angels' brass decided, just wasn't marketable enough. Pitching against his hometown team on Saturday night in Edison Field, Garland...

Perhaps the White Sox were tempted to sip champagne on their flight to Dallas after Thursday's night game in Anaheim. What, you don't think the Sox had anything to celebrate after getting drubbed by the Angels 5-1 before 35,056 fans at Edison...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...

Friday evening at Comiskey Park started with Chicago legend Studs Terkel throwing out the ceremonial first pitch wearing a wool hat and a long red scarf. His toss landed just short of home plate, not bad for a 90-year-old man making his first start in 42-...

If the White Sox are trying to figure out how good they are, the last two weeks are giving them a good indication. So how good are they? "The best," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "We're in first place. Maybe we'll be in last place in two months, but we're...

After making their third foray into first place, the White Sox like where they are. And they plan to stick around for a while. "The third time should be the charm," Jose Valentin said. "We don't want to give up that lead anymore." Of course they don't....

White Sox starter Mark Buehrle wasn't afraid to show his emotions after giving up three consecutive hits in the eighth inning of Wednesday night's game. After seeing manager Jerry Manual approach the mound to remove him from the game, Buehrle fired a...

Fear the monkey. Trailing by five runs in the seventh inning of Game 6 on Saturday, Anaheim bounced off the mat with a stunning 6-5 victory over San Francisco to even the World Series at three games apiece. Troy Glaus' two-run eighth-inning double off...

The Anaheim Angels ended their 42-year wait on Sunday night, while Barry Bonds still hasn't found what he's looking for. The Angels cruised to a 4-1 victory over San Francisco in Game 7 of the World Series at Edison Field, claiming their first...

Here lies Mark Langston. If ever a picture was worth a million words, this was the one. If ever one frozen moment in time embodied the essence of a tortured franchise that, let's face it, has to be cursed--were they Caligula's Angels in a previous...