Steve Dallas, Laredo Midday Times Tuesday, January 1, 2013 Jack Cobb announced his retirement from baseball today. In a written statement released to the press, Cobb hung up his spikes. His prepared statement read as follows: Baseball has been a part of my life for a very long time, so it is with mixed emotions […]
Youthful Sluggers Look to Avoid Another 100-loss Campaign 1/6/2013: Laredo, TX – For the Calzones in 2013, growing pains are to be expected, but with a fan base that long ago quit on this struggling franchise, it has become imperative that the team not use youth as an excuse. The need to put wins on […]
Kiddie Calzones Expecting Growing Pains 1/5/2013: Laredo, TX – The San Antonio Calzones de Laredo will enter the 2013 season with one of the youngest teams in the PEBA. Not a single member of the projected starting rotation has more than one year of experience. In the bullpen, there are three pitchers with more than […]
12/28/2012: Laredo, TX – In a little-noticed transaction approved at the most recent PEBA Winter Meetings, the San Antonio Calzones de Laredo were sold to millionaire trucker Cledus Snow. Snow, those of you with long memories might recall, is the trucker immortalized in the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Those films, based loosely on the exploits […]
By Saruwatari Tsuyoshi, Kyoto Shimbun News December 23, 2012: Kyoto, Japan – Babe Ruth defined it. Hank Aaron refined it. Morihiro Nakamura will enshrine it in the LRS. The league’s all-time home run leader with 248 HR will be thrilling Japanese fans for many more seasons after inking a 4-year contract extension worth $54 million […]
Kalamazoo Gazette Friday, December 28, 2012 The Kalamazoo Badgers ownership group is happy to announce the hiring of Bob Baginski as the new General Manager of the team. However, according to an unnamed source close to the situation, some organization insiders have voiced concern that the untried Baginski has no proven track record at the […]
By Scott Plack 12/8/2012: New Orleans, LA – Looking back at 2012 will not be a fun experience for Trendsetters fans. The fairest evaluation of this past season’s performance is to acknowledge that it was terrible in every respect. The Trendsetters ranked last in the Imperial League in team batting average, runs scored and extra […]
By Tomasz Kamien / NewJerseyHitmen.blogspot.com December 12th, 2012: Elmwood Park, NJ – Just hours away from the beginning of the Winter Meetings, New Jersey’s manager Tracy Evans finds himself back at square one with rival Cooper Scott. They might have been avoiding each other since the first series back in April, but today they will be forced […]
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Kudo and Kimura to Host Daily Radio Sports Program12/13/2012: Tokyo, Japan – ESPN-Japan has chosen the popular veteran middle infielders of the Niihama-Shi Ghosts for the first nationally syndicated radio program devoted solely to the League of the Rising Sun. “Kudo and Kimura in the Morning” will debut on ESPN-Japan Radio on January 3, 2013. […]