Baseball’s most famous Las Vegas native has a lot of thoughts on MLB coming to his hometown. “I feel bad for the A’s and their fans,” Bryce Harper said.

And, for many reasons, he’s not convinced a relocation will work: theathletic.com/4611968/2023/0…

There’s a party at the Coliseum on Tuesday, and you’re all invited. On the origins of the reverse boycott and other Oakland A’s fans efforts to save their team from relocation: theathletic.com/4601879/2023/0…

Spoke with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick (⁦Bob Kendrick⁩) about the firing of A's broadcaster Glen Kuiper, who used a racial epithet on the air. “I was hoping it would not come to that because in my heart it was a mistake.'

More: mercurynews.com/2023/05/22/neg…

The letters Brittney Griner was written while she was held in Russia told a lot of stories.

But I wanted to know about the people who wrote them — an ethicist, a teacher, a grandma, a man exonerated from death row — and what that said about BG. theathletic.com/4503820/2023/0…

“I think the game is better because of Sarah.”

It’s a beautiful new Starkville. The great ⁦Sarah Langs⁩ on how her baseball family is helping her live with ALS and rallying around her to fight it.

Apple: bit.ly/ApTABS
Spotify: bit.ly/SpTABS

Meet the Crash Davis of the broadcast booth. Johnny Doskow spent 30 years calling minor-league games while dreaming of making The Show.

His big break, of all things, was surgery on that magnificent nose.

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I know what images you’ve been fed for the last couple of years. But get one thing straight. The A’s aren’t moving to Las Vegas because the fan base is unworthy. It is the owner who doesn’t measure up. Column:

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Earlier this year, stats guru Sarah Langs announced she had ALS, a rapidly progressing neurological disease that has no cure. Then she kept living her baseball-obsessed life.

On Langs, the people who love her, and how even now, baseball remains the best:
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The role of the sideline reporter is crucial to any broadcast, but there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes you’ll never see. The great ⁦Molly McGrath⁩ let me shadow her for a night in the SEC. We logged 10,000 steps and 4-plus miles:
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Scott Spiezio was the Angels' World Series hero 20 years ago.

For 13 years, he battled addiction. His children were adopted. He lost his money. He was arrested. He nearly died.

Today he's clean & putting his life back together.

Story from Morris, IL.: theathletic.com/3578407/2022/0…

If you are able to donate blood, please do.

Only one Bahamian has ever pitched in MLB. Pirates prospect Tahnaj Thomas wants to be the second.

And he wants to do it for his mother, who weathered years of chemotherapy -- and who died just before he signed a pro deal -- to send him toward his dream.
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The challenge was to summarize your team’s activity at the trade deadline in one paragraph. The Rockies were the one team that did jack squat. Yet Nick Groke, national treasure that he is, nailed the damn thing.

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'You only have to spend five minutes around Tim at a ballpark to be infused with that feeling that he falls in love with baseball again every day. And because he does, he brings the rest of us along with him.'

Me on Tim Kurkjian - on his HOF weekend
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We took Marla Hooch to the batting cages to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 'A League of Their Own.'

What a hitter! What a storyteller!

My story for The Athletic

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Here's the full story of Reid Detmers' no-hitter.

Thoughts in here from Detmers, his parents, college coach, Angels teammates & manager — who earlier in the day didn't rule out the chance he'd be sent down to AAA to improve.

On a crazy & magical night: bit.ly/3M3jOyv

I want the A's to have a good, fun, successful team with owners who care, and you should too. theathletic.com/3276173/2022/0…

Cam Booser had two elbow surgeries, knee surgery, a labrum repair and twice broke his back. In 2017, he retired to work construction, another baseball dream dashed. The end?

Nope. Now he's back, and he's throwing 100 miles an hour. For The Athletic MLB:
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In fall 2020, Dan Bryan lost his son Ethan in an accident on the way home from high school baseball practice. To remember him, Dan made a pledge: Play catch 365 times in 2022. On a father, a national movement, and the joy, grief and power of playing catch: theathletic.com/3169475/2022/0…