Kirby Puckett

Atlanta Braves Spring training home: Champion Stadium, Disney's Wide World of Sports (700 S. Victory Way) Contact number: 407-939-2200 Ticket prices: lower level reserved, $23.50; upper level and bleacher reserved, $20.50; grass berm, $14.50. How to...

•  Kirby Puckett: Baseball Hall of Famer, 45, stroke. •  Floyd Patterson: Heavyweight boxing champion, 71, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. •  Curt Gowdy: Preeminent sportscaster, 86, leukemia. •  Steve Howe: Former Dodgers reliever, 48, car...

Corey Patterson was that kid. He was the one who started in football as a high school freshman and promptly led the team in total yards and scoring. He was the one who, as a sophomore, was already considered the best among thousands of high school...

ESPN's latest "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" release doesn't make much more sense to me than the last one. It appears Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe Namath and Manhasset's own Jim Brown will represent New York in this feature. I'm not......

SEATTLE - A season of lasts brought Cal Ripken to the Emerald City yesterday, where he and San Diego Padres right fielder Tony Gwynn became the focus of a sport that has begun its goodbyes. The 72nd Baseball All-Star Game welcomed Ripken for the 19th and...

(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...

It's a foregone conclusion, but newly retired Orioles superstar Cal Ripken will have to wait more than five years to take his place in baseball's Hall of Fame. The first Hall of Fame ballots bearing Ripken's name will be mailed in December 2006. The...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Eddie Murray's first major league mentor had a seat close to the stage at yesterday's Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. So did the guy who lost his position when Murray took over as Orioles first baseman late in his rookie season....

The boy loves games of chance. He loves slot machines and playing cards and instant-win lottery tickets. He learned at an early age to count coins, and to bet them. He learned in the hospital that money comes in get-well cards.Michael Hirschbeck learned...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Eddie Murray became the 20th player in history to get 3,000 hits last night, and did two things he rarely does. He showed his emotions on the field, then he spoke to the media. "It was nice. It really was," said Murray, Cleveland's...

Fifty years after Jackie Robinson, you need only four fingers to count the number of minority managers in major-league baseball. Not embarrassing enough? Fifty years after Jackie Robinson, you also can count the number of minority general managers,...