The Associated Press and ESPN are both reporting that Major League Baseball's team owners have approved a proposal for an 82 game season, which would begin in early July.
Major League Baseball added wild card teams to the playoffs in 1994, although because of a players strike it didn't actually take effect until 1995. Since that time, the Twins have been to the playoffs in six seasons, all under manager Ron Gardenhire, and all as division champions...
I've never been much of a baseball fan. For all that it is America's pastime, I never could figure out why people would play it, much less watch. Baseball is slow, with a lot of nothing happening around a very little bit of something, and not even a time clock ticking down to build anticipation...
Joe Mauer entered Saturday's spring training game against Philadelphia batting .188 in 32 at-bats with just two extra base hits and three RBI. The circle of Twins beat writers, who have been enjoying sunny Florida in March while providing Twins fans with Twitter updates on everything -- including when a player uses a different knot to tie his shoe -- were not alarmed...
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. There were prior attempts. One of the stories includes Bill Veeck telling the commissioner of his plans to buy the Phillies and stock the team with players from the Negro League...
Washington Nationals' second baseman Danny Espinosa has had a rough last two years, so he did what every reasonable guy would do: he grew the most badass mustache in his industry.
Honus Wagner (John Peter Wagner) may have been the greatest all-around baseball player to wear a professional uniform. He was born Feb. 24, 1874, in Pennsylvania and died Dec. 6, 1955, in Pennsylvania.
Hall of Fame skipper John McGraw called Wagner, "The nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him...