Follow New York Times - Baseball, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/new-york-times-d-baseball Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:13:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUexcSb_7nw9iejEQ2Mq9rY Basinski, who spent time with the Dodgers and the Pirates, was a rare double threat: a major league ballplayer and a trained violinist.Eddie Basinski in 2011. A onetime Brooklyn Dodger, he was one of the few major leaguers who also played classical music.]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:48:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUexcSb_7nw9iejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWJhykoYwSyIZs0ohxaO6Yr A rare negotiating session did not appear to please either side. Time is running out to avoid delaying spring training.]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:02:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWJhykoYwSyIZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NXiygyHfAozk-zdsCmHakzH Rachel Balkovec’s ascent through the Yankees coaching ranks will take its next step when she manages in the minors. After years of hard work, the move was an easy choice.]]> Thu, 13 Jan 2022 02:17:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NXiygyHfAozk-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUwCP9Fqdl9sOzdsCmHakzH The retirement of Keith Hernandez’s No. 17 continues a recent trend of recognizing the players most crucial to the team’s glory years.Keith Hernandez spent seven seasons with the Mets, wearing No. 17 for all of them.]]> Thu, 13 Jan 2022 02:02:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUwCP9Fqdl9sOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NXKZWOG_n0UapVjH6qdYdAk At 17, Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to play in Australia’s top professional baseball league. She hopes her next stop is college ball in the United States.]]> Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:31:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NXKZWOG_n0UapVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NX0dytsRFOS2-T5HJgy6HUf Having served as a hitting coach in the team’s system, Rachel Balkovec will be the first woman to manage a team in affiliated baseball.]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:41:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NX0dytsRFOS2-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUvL3gVDrVUjps0ohxaO6Yr For four seasons at Shea Stadium, when the Mets were dreadful but beloved, he donned a giant head and roamed the stands greeting fans as the team’s mascot.]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 23:55:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUvL3gVDrVUjps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUBdPZUZprOh-zdsCmHakzH Eric Chavez was named an assistant hitting coach for the Yankees just last month, but he will move across town to guide Mets hitters instead.As a player, Eric Chavez was a six-time Gold Glove third baseman who hit 260 home runs over 17 seasons.]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:54:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUBdPZUZprOh-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWRZLjJVCJT9ezdsCmHakzH The deal follows the loss of Topps’ licensing agreement with Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association to Fanatics.Topps sells its products in more than 100 countries.]]> Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:43:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWRZLjJVCJT9ezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NXGLBN9zMbIuJs0ohxaO6Yr The owner of the Iowa Cubs gave employees $2,000 for every year they had been with the minor league baseball team, for a total of $600,000. “My jaw dropped,” one worker said.]]> Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:42:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NXGLBN9zMbIuJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWdW1wjj6QVN8b1naedg1wr They deserve Hall of Fame recognition, even though they played in the “steroids era.”Barry Bonds in 2006.]]> Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:45:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWdW1wjj6QVN8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NV67paJI3cr_11cWWor9YPv After a long wait, Gil Hodges was elected to the Hall of Fame. For one of the many people whose lives he helped change with community work, Hodges was already a legend.]]> Fri, 24 Dec 2021 12:00:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NV67paJI3cr_11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NVKXiUWn_hgmV1cWWor9YPv In an introductory news conference, Buck Showalter applauded Steven Cohen for taking away the team’s excuses for not winning the World Series.Buck Showalter and his wife, Angela, appeared together on a video news conference to introduce him as the new manager of the Mets.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:59:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NVKXiUWn_hgmV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWkGUCbE0pd6-T5HJgy6HUf The hiring of Showalter, the latest acquisition in an off-season of win-now moves by the Mets, was announced in a tweet by the team’s owner, Steven Cohen.The Mets will be the fifth major league team Buck Showalter has managed.]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2021 22:00:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWkGUCbE0pd6-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NURA-y-OkdiU11cWWor9YPv Max Verstappen knew his chances of beating Lewis Hamilton for the Formula 1 championship were slim. But he is ready to accept the trophy despite protests by Mercedes.]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:02:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NURA-y-OkdiU11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NVTBbRoemWYhOzdsCmHakzH Gil Hodges struggled to make the Hall of Fame because voters had to consider him as a player or as a manager. Hodges was decidedly both and is finally headed to Cooperstown.Gil Hodges was a slugging first baseman who could help his team with his bat and his glove. He helped lead the Dodgers to two World Series titles.]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:21:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NVTBbRoemWYhOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWwx2TVQBr2pSlmFkX7M1Jw Elected by the Hall’s Early Days committee, Bud Fowler was a pioneer who played organized professional baseball against white players as early as 1878.]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:02:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWwx2TVQBr2pSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWyDFJZAdLY_5s0ohxaO6Yr A pair of committees asked to review candidates from previous eras elected Buck O’Neil, Gil Hodges, Minnie Miñoso, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat and Bud Fowler.Buck O’Neil was a legendary player, manager and scout. He also was a founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 02:14:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NWyDFJZAdLY_5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUamXNSZSNi1l1cWWor9YPv He won the 1983 Cy Young Award as the American League’s leading pitcher, but an injury and troubles with drugs and the law ended his career prematurely.LaMarr Hoyt of the Chicago White Sox on the mound in the first game of the 1983 American League Championship Series against the Orioles in Baltimore. The White Sox won, 2-1, and Hoyt pitched a complete game. ]]> Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:24:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUamXNSZSNi1l1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUamXNSZSNi1nn9ye8UNv30 Players are locked out and transactions are frozen in baseball’s ninth work stoppage. But no one is missing any checks — yet.This is the ninth work stoppage in M.L.B. history, and the first in 26 years.]]> Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:10:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/4AQGmaYz9NUamXNSZSNi1nn9ye8UNv30