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02/13/2008 -- Matt Herges would like to make the following statement in response to the allegations against him in the Mitchell Report:

Several years ago I made a poor decision rather than trusting in the abilities the Lord has blessed me with. With great insecurity I chose to cross the line and briefly use performance enhancing substances. I have no excuse for my actions.    » read more »

National Constitution Center to host Baseball as America from Cooperstown's National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum

Steroid Use in Sports

Monday, February 11, 2008 -- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Ranking Minority Member Tom Davis released the following joint statement:    » read more »

Tournament featuring teams from Division I schools and historically black colleges and universities

- 2008 Hall of Fame game to feature Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres Monday, June 16 at Doubleday Field
- Tickets on sale March 8 for final annual exhibition game in Cooperstown

01/29/2008, COOPERSTOWN -- The 2008 Baseball Hall of Fame Game will feature a pair of National League teams, the Central Division champion Chicago Cubs, and the National League West Division member San Diego Padres on Monday, June 16 in Cooperstown at historic Doubleday Field, in a rematch of the 1984 NL Championship Series.    » read more »

David Wright and Dmitri Young honored

01/29/2008 -- Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.) will host its 19th annual "Going to Bat for B.A.T. Dinner" tonight, honoring the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals 1968 World Series teams. Founded in 1986, B.A.T. is dedicated to assisting members of the baseball family through financial grants, healthcare programs and rehabilitative counseling. More than $16 million in grants have been awarded to date, benefiting more than 2,100 members of the baseball family.    » read more »

Teamsters President Hoffa Joins NAACP Chair Julian Bond for Release of NAACP Report Documenting Racial Discrimination by MLB’s Cap Manufacturer

January 28, 2008 -- (Washington, D.C.) – Today, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa asked Major League Baseball (MLB) to intervene with the MLB’s exclusive on-field cap manufacturer, New Era Cap, in an effort to end racial discrimination and worker rights violations in New Era’s distribution center in Mobile, Alabama.    » read more »

All proceeds benefit Twins Community Fund

01/27/2008, MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Twins today announced that TwinsFest 2008 attracted 30,483 fans to the Metrodome, the third-highest TwinsFest attendance in the event's history.    » read more »

01/24/2008 -- Major League Baseball (MLB) today announced its 2008 regular season schedule, subject to change.

Major League Baseball's 2008 regular season will open on Tuesday, March 25th in Tokyo, Japan as the reigning World Series Champion Boston Red Sox square off against the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome for a two-game series. It will mark the earliest regular season game ever played and the third time the MLB season has opened in Japan (Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in 2000; New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2004).    » read more »

Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres will play two games in Beijing on March 15 and 16

01/23/2008 -- The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres will meet in the first-ever Major League Baseball (MLB) games played in China on March 15 and 16, MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced today in Beijing. The event will be hosted by the China Baseball Association (CBA).    » read more »

January 22, 2008, New York City -- Simon Spotlight Entertainment (SSE), a division of Simon & Schuster, announced today that it will publish Jose Canseco's VINDICATED, the follow-up to his #1 New York Times bestseller Juiced. Written with bestselling author and screenwriter Pablo F. Fenjves, the book is scheduled for publication on March 31, 2008.

Canseco's first book was largely responsible for breaking open the steroid scandal in baseball. VINDICATED goes even further, looking at the state of baseball post-scandal and Mitchell Report.    » read more »

01/22/2008 -- Major League Baseball announced today that Earnell Lucas has been promoted to Senior Director of Security & Facility Management and will be responsible for establishing and directing all of MLB's security and facility management policies, procedures and programs. Lucas will report directly to Jimmie Lee Solomon, Major League Baseball's Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations.    » read more »

01/17/2008 -- Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig issued the following statement today regarding the passing of longtime baseball executive John J. McHale, who spent more than 30 years with the Detroit Tigers, Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Braves and the Montreal Expos:    » read more »

01/17/2008, NEW YORK -- MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, announced today that it has hired longtime USA Today baseball columnist Hal Bodley as senior correspondent. Bodley will provide fans with his unique perspective of the game across various platforms as a columnist and on-air analyst on MLB.com.    » read more »

01/17/2008, SCOTTSDALE -- Major League Baseball Club owners voted unanimously at their quarterly meetings to extend the contract of Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig through the 2012 season, it was announced today.

Bud Selig has led the industry since September 9, 1992, first as interim Commissioner and then as the ninth Commissioner, a position to which he was elected on July 9, 1998.    » read more »