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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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U.S.S. Mariner, The Cub Reporter, new A's ballpark, Baseball Musings, Federal Baseball and Padres RunDown
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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:
Players, owners make five-year labor deal public — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — 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.
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 …
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Robinson: Managers Should Balk When Pitchers Try to Get Slick
Robinson: Managers Should Balk When Pitchers Try to Get Slick
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Detroit Free Press, New York Times, Sports Scope, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and William F. Yurasko
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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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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Amazin' Avenue
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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
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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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Hot Foot
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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.
Ann Killion / Mercury News:
The Giants, their job, and the thing in the room — I'm wondering how the Giants' interview process is going with that elephant in the room. It must be a little awkward. — On Monday, Brian Sabean, Mets coach Manny Acta and the elephant met about the team's vacant managerial job.
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El Lefty Malo
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Andrew Baggarly / Mercury News:
Giants get their chance to interview Mets' Acta
Giants get their chance to interview Mets' Acta
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Examiner
New York Times:
Mischief on the Mound: An Abridged History — The moment of truth for Jay Howell in 1988. Howell's glove had pine tar on it. — Major league pitchers have a long history of shenanigans, doctoring baseballs with such substances as sandpaper, thumb tacks, emery boards, pine tar and saliva.
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The 26th Man
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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.
Baseball America:
2006 Minor League Free Agents — The following is the list of minor leaguers who have been declared free agents following the 2006 season, as provided by Major League Baseball.
Jim Baker / Baseball Prospectus:
Prospectus Matchups — Breakin' the Law — Mon dieu! You would think nobody in baseball ever cheated before to hear folks carrying on about Kenny Rogers and his dirty hand. Remember: this is a game with a long history of players and teams doing untoward things to get the upper...er...hand.
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Mack Avenue Tigers