Sox pitchers drank beer in dugout during games  —  BOSTON — 7News Sources said: Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and John Lackey drank beer in the Red Sox dugout during games, according to two Red Sox employees who witnessed the drinking on multiple occasions at Fenway Park.

Occupy St. Louis to show commercial-free World Series  —  (Reuters) - Occupy St. Louis invited baseball fans on Tuesday to watch the World Series for free on a big screen at its campsite, and said it would stream its message against economic inequality between innings.

Finally in World Series, Rhodes guaranteed ring  —  Cards lefty reaches first Fall Classic, began year with Rangers  —  ST. LOUIS — October is deer-hunting season in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, the typical autumn haunts of Cardinals reliever Arthur Rhodes.

Baseball: Darvish ready for major league challenge  —  TOKYO (Kyodo) — The Yu Darvish sweepstakes are set to begin.  —  Nippon Ham Fighters ace Darvish, long said to be Japanese baseball's next biggest export to the majors, is ready to make a move stateside through the posting system this offseason …

Whitey forecasts a ‘strange, strange Series’  —  Only one man has managed both the Cardinals and the Texas Rangers, tonight's World Series opponents.  He finished his managing career with the former and he started his career with the latter.  He is Hall of Famer Whitey Herzog …

Dogs' Choice unable to best Harper  —  After break, A's No. 2 prospect homers in his third straight game  —  Michael Choice homered in his third straight game Tuesday, but it wasn't enough to top Bryce Harper.  —  The Harper-led Scottsdale Scorpions rallied to beat Choice's Phoenix Desert Dogs …

Still Great.  Still Albert Pujols.  —  ST. LOUIS — Ty Cobb hit .240 as a rookie.  Willie Mays started 1 for 26.  With Albert Pujols, there was no progression.  From the moment he arrived in the major leagues, on opening day 2001, he was the best player in the game.

Rangers Turn to Wilson, Their Ace and Student of the Game  —  ST. LOUIS — While shopping years ago at the South Coast Plaza mall in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer strolled through the men's department at Nordstrom.  He got more than the duvet he was looking for.

Cashman expects new deal by end of October  —  NEW YORK — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman believes that he will have a new contract in place by the time his current deal expires on Halloween, remaining in the position he has held since 1998.  —  “It'll get done between now and Oct. 31st, I'm sure,” Cashman said.