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Vizquel close to signing contract with White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are closing in on a contract agreement with free-agent shortstop Omar Vizquel. By The Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox are closing in on a contract agreement with free-agent shortstop Omar...

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Pricey gift: MLB offers Series film set for $2,229

NEW YORK - Major League Baseball has the perfect gift to bust a budget in a recession. A 20-DVD set of World Series films can be bought for $2,229, and it contains authenticated autographs of 12 Ha...

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Second Cy Young is historic

Giants starter Tim Lincecum, one of baseball's most dazzling and charismatic players, made history Thursday when he won baseball's highest pitching honor, the Cy Young Award, for a second consecutive season. In winning an...

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Ted Keith: It seems absurd, but Lincecum's worthy of Cooperstown talk at 25

It should be ridiculous. To raise the possibility that a 25-year-old -- a "veteran" of just three major league seasons, with only 40 career wins and a look so youthful that he almost certainly still gets carded -- is worthy of...

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Cards may add Cy Young to awards haul

Wainwright (most wins) likely to edge Carpenter (best ERA) ST. LOUIS -- Tony La Russa became the first manager to finish as the runner-up on six occasions for the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Manager of the Year...

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Torre's Safe at Home gala remains a hit

Stars come out in New York to help end domestic violence Joe Torre: "We started something here and we feel it's very important." His Safe at Home Foundation gala remains a mainstay on the annual event calendar, continuing to...

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Best fishmonger: The Fish Plaice

I'm lucky to live in Brixham, Devon, home to some of the best seafood in the country. The fleet here is diverse, we have beam trawlers catching our valuable flatfish, potters, divers, netters and handliners and the market sees...

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Two Cardinals win Gold Glove awards BASEBALL

The tradition in the last 20 years of Cardinals catchers winning Rawlings Gold Gloves continued Wednesday with the announcement that Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina had won his second straight defensive award.

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More shutouts than losses

The new PI arithmetic function (which is my new favorite thing in the world, by the way) allows us to do lots of quick searches for things we always wanted to know. How about this? Here are the 130 times since 1954 in which a...

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Molina, Wainwright nab Gold Gloves

Back-to-back awards for Cards catcher; hurler wins first ST. LOUIS -- As few mistakes as Adam Wainwright made on the mound in 2009, he made even fewer in the field. As a result, the Cardinals right-hander won his first Gold...

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