baseball (The Springfield News-Leader)

baseball (The Springfield News-Leader)
Taipei, Taiwan — Springfield Cardinal Colby Rasmus homered leading off the bottom of the first inning, and the United States beat the Netherlands 5-0 Saturday to advance to the final of the Baseball World Cup.

Chesterfield man, 84, is baseball game fixture (Chesterfield Journal)

Chesterfield man, 84, is baseball game fixture (Chesterfield Journal)
Henry Schmidt is an interesting chap. A spry 84 years old, Schmidt has turned his fondness for baseball into a mission statement.

A-Rod, Barry Bonds are faces of Major League Baseball (New York Daily News)

A-Rod, Barry Bonds are faces of Major League Baseball (New York Daily News)
It was quite a week for baseball, wasn’t it? Hideous is about the only way to describe it. Barry Bonds is finally indicted for allegedly lying under oath about steroids and Alex Rodriguez, in an attempt to salvage his battered image, crawls back to the Yankees for $275 million.