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Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
MLB, union announce new labor deal — New Basic Agreement will run through 2011 — ST. LOUIS — Major League Baseball and its players association have come to an historic labor agreement that will extend peace between the owners and union for another five years.
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MLB.com:
MLB, MLBPA reach five-year labor accord — ST. LOUIS — Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig and Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr jointly announced today that MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to a five-year labor contract that will allow play …
Associated Press:
MLB players, owners announce five-year labor deal — ST. LOUIS — Baseball players and owners proclaimed an unprecedented era of labor peace, finalizing a new five-year collective bargaining agreement Tuesday night before Game 3 of the World Series. — Lawyers struck the deal …
Ben Walker / Associated Press:
St. Louis 5, Detroit 0 — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Carpenter was well on his way to a World Series win when, all of a sudden, people swarmed the mound to examine his hand. — No smudge, no scuffs. Just a cramp, and it wasn't about to blemish his outing.
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Blogging Baseball
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Joe Lapointe / New York Times:
Clear as Mud: What Was on Rogers's Hand? — Correction Appended — The various explanations were as clear as mud or whatever you call that now-you-see-it, now-you-don't substance on the magical left hand of Kenny Rogers. — After Rogers led the Tigers to a 3-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals …
Mark Pesavento / Yahoo! Sports:
Hit or miss — DETROIT - Even after a bizarre did-he-or-didn't-he-cheat episode involving Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Kenny Rogers, the St. Louis Cardinals are feeling pretty good about themselves. They stole home-field advantage with a split in the first two games of the World Series …
Mark Hermann / Newsday:
Delgado gets award but can't watch Game 3 — The Mets slugger won the award for on-field excellence and community service for 2006. — ST. LOUIS — Carlos Delgado was at the World Series after all. He capped an outstanding first year with the Mets by receiving the Roberto Clemente Award …
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Mark Newman / MLB.com:
Delgado honored with Clemente Award — ST. LOUIS — Nine days earlier, Carlos Delgado was in the same interview room at Busch Stadium to talk about the two home runs he had just hit for the Mets to even the National League Championship Series at two wins apiece. — He was back there on Tuesday for a very different reason.
Sports Illustrated:
Matsuzaka hires Boras — Japanese star expected to make jump to MLB — Top Japanese League pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka has hired agent Scott Boras to represent his interests in Major League Baseball. — Matsuzaka, a right-hander from the Seibu Lions, is expected to be posted, the process by which players jump to the majors.
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Dodger Thoughts
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Pendleton bows out of Nats' search — Hitting coach cites loyalty to Braves as reason — WASHINGTON — Braves hitting coach Terry Pendleton took himself out as a candidate to become manager of the Nationals, informing the club on Monday. The news comes a day after Joe Girardi took himself …
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The Baseball Files
Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times:
A-Rod rumored on Sox' A-list — Crede status would affect any pursuit of Yankees star — It was the ultimate compliment paid to Ken Williams. — The White Sox general manager already had made the only two moves he planned to make as the July 31 trade deadline was winding down …
Chris Carpenter / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Game 3 Matchup: Carpenter vs. Robertson — RHP . . . 2006: 15-8, 3.09 ERA, 32 starts — Career in postseason: 4-1, 2.98 ERA, seven starts — Career vs. Tigers: 3-4, 7.03 ERA, 11 starts — * Including his postseason start against San Diego, Carpenter went 9-4 at home this season with a 1.85 ERA over 131 innings in 18 starts.
Tim McKernan / insidestl.com:
Dirtgate, Creepy Emails, And Busch Stadium Turns Into Nashville (Again) — The Gambler Plays The Cards With A Dirty Hand — As the day wore on Monday, many Cardinal fans got more a nd more angry with what happened—and didn't happen—Sunday night in Detroit.
Associated Press:
Nelson De La Rosa, 38, Actor and Good-Luck Charm for Red Sox, Dies — Nelson De La Rosa, the diminutive actor who became a good-luck charm for the Boston Red Sox during their victorious 2004 World Series run, died at a hospital in New York on Sunday. He was 38.
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TwinCities.com:
Delgado tops Mets' surgery list — First baseman, three others go under knife — New York Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado, catcher Paul Lo Duca, right-hander Aaron Heilman and infielder Chris Woodward had successful surgery Monday. — Delgado had surgery on his right wrist because of carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Don Walker / JSOnline:
Sutton won't be coming back — Brewers' play-by-play announcer said he will pursue other interests — dwalker@journalsentinel.com — Daron Sutton, play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers since 2002, will not return for the 2007 season, the team announced Monday night.
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