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BALTIMORE (AP) — Major League Baseball and Chevrolet have signed a multiyear deal that extends a partnership that began in 2005.

NEW YORK (AP) --  Major League Baseball and the players' union have banned rolling block slides to break up potential double plays,hoping to prevent a repeat of the takeout by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Chase Utley that broke a leg of New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in last year's playoffs.

New Major League Baseball Commissioner and Rome-native Robert Manfred will be the guest speaker at the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce's 103rd Anniversary Business Meeting in July.

CHICAGO (AP) — Major league baseball's first black player in Chicago, Minnie Minoso, has died.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is making some changes to speed up the length of games but it won't implement some of the more radical proposals to make games shorter.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has granted a request from the four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA to at least temporarily stop New Jersey from allowing legalized sports betting.

Not winning a World Series since the Truman administration no longer seems to be the biggest cloud hanging over the Cleveland Indians.

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Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers slugger who was recently suspended for the rest of the 2013 season, issued a lengthy apology to fans, his teammates, the Brewers organization and numerous others. In the letter, he admits to using performance-enhancing drugs to recover from a 2011 injury.

If you're one of the many who complain about the high price of tickets for any sporting event, have we got good news for you.