John Vander Wal

Aberdeen: Emma (Vander Wal) Wagenaar, age 89, died December 14, 2011, at Mother Joseph Manor in Aberdeen. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m., Saturday, December 17, at the United Methodist Church in Arlington, where Emma was a longtime member....

Imagine the shock for an Atlanta Braves fan who spent the winter abroad without giving his favorite team a second thought. Hey, that isn't Tom Glavine in a New York Mets uniform, is it? And what's the deal with Kevin Millwood wearing that Phillies cap?...

If it's not broken, don't fix it. Who could begrudge Anaheim Angels general manager Bill Stoneman a restful winter? After all, the Angels' ultraimpressive run through the playoffs should not be viewed as the doing of the Rally Monkey or any other Disney-...

The starting pitching foursome of Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Carlos Zambrano and Matt Clement is the main reason the Cubs are where they are with September around the corner. And now that the stretch run has arrived, manager Dusty Baker plans on riding...

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...

It took nearly five hours, two sausage races and 17 innings for the Cubs to outlast Milwaukee on Thursday afternoon, but the end result was ultimately worth the wait. Corey Patterson's two-run 17th-inning home run off Brooks Kieschnick sent the Cubs to a...

A fortunate bounce comes along every once in a while to change a team's luck, like a ball that gets lost in the Wrigley Field ivy or rolls down a drain pipe. The Cubs may have gotten one of those bounces during the first inning of Wednesday's 2-1 victory...

Sammy Sosa was drowning in boos Wednesday at Wrigley Field before stepping up against Cincinnati reliever Todd Van Poppel during a seventh-inning downpour. That is until Sosa lined a 3-0 pitch into the basket in left field for a solo home run that gave...

2002: 103-58, First place. Manager: Joe Torre (eighth season). He's here: LF Hideki Matsui, RHP Jose Contreras, LHP Chris Hammond, OF Bubba Trammell, RHP Juan Acevedo, RHP Antonio Osuna, INF Todd Zeile, C John Flaherty. He's outta here: LHP Mike...