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Santa Fe Baseball Wins After Suspended Play

By Perry Yalkut and Tyler Lightburn On a rainy day in Gainesville, Fla., the Santa Fe Baseball Team took the field Friday afternoon. The game was suspended due to darkness and finished on Monday, Feb. 21 at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College prior to their previously scheduled matchup in Tifton, Ga. …

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Tim Kurkjian Gives Insight on the MLB Lockout

Major League Baseball is in its ninth full-work stoppage and fourth lockout in history. The main issue surrounds the MLB and the MLBPA. Mainly how there needs to be a change on the economic side of the sport. Players want to address many key issues involving service time manipulation, minimum …

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Mets start over with new manager Buck Showalter

MLB stadium

In December, the New York Mets announced the hiring of Buck Showalter as their manager. Showalter was one of three finalists in the hiring process and came away with the job because of his past experience. Previously, Showalter managed the New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers and most recently, …

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Yankees Hire First Woman Manager, Meet Rachel Balkovec

Rachel Balkovec had completed two master’s degrees and an internship with the St. Louis Cardinals. But when she applied to fifteen baseball teams in the Phoenix area, she heard nothing back. The then-waitress and Lululemon worker changed the name on her resume from ‘Rachel’ to ‘Rae.’ In addition, she said …

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