Major League Baseball

Randy Marsh, Tim McClelland to serve as crew chiefs

10/10/2007 -- Major League Baseball has named the two umpiring crews that will officiate the League Championship Series. The National League Championship Series will begin on Thursday, October 11th, while the American League Championship Series will start on Friday, October 12th.    » read more »

10/08/2007, NEW YORK -- MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, announced today the fan voting has begun for the sixth annual This Year in Baseball Awards, which provides fans around the world an opportunity to choose the top players and moments from the historic 2007 season. Over the previous five years of the awards, more than 11.5 million fan votes have been cast online at MLB.com.    » read more »

Day one average audience up from 2006 coverage on ESPN, FOX

10/04/2007 -- First day coverage of the 2007 Major League Baseball Division Series on TBS delivered an average 3.6 HH rating and an average of 4.54 million viewers, according to Live plus Same Day data from Nielsen Media Research.    » read more »

Majestic Athletic to produce new products as part of ongoing MLBP Performance Initiative

10/02/2007 -- Major League Baseball has assigned the four umpiring crews that will work the American League and National League Division Series, which are scheduled to begin on Wednesday, Oct. 3 and Thursday, Oct. 4. The four crew chiefs will be Gary Darling, Bruce Froemming, Ed Montague and Dale Scott.    » read more »

10/02/2007, NEW YORK -- MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, which manages MLB.com, the official league website, as well as the 30 individual club sites, announced today that it recorded more than 10 million total visitors and 70 million page views on Monday, Oct. 1 as the San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockies played a dramatic one-game playoff, the first in baseball since 1999. Additionally, nearly three million people accessed the video stream of the dramatic 13-inning game, live and on-demand, on MLB.TV.    » read more »

- Fourth consecutive record year for baseball
- Total surpasses 79.5 million

10/02/2007 -- Major League Baseball announced today that the 2007 regular season has closed with a record attendance total of 79,502,524, breaking the overall single-season record for the fourth consecutive year. This season's average attendance of 32,785 is the highest in baseball history. Last year's overall record of 76,042,787 (averaging 31,423) had been surpassed during games played on Sunday, Sept. 23. Overall, attendance increased 4.5 percent over the 2006 season.    » read more »

Top players from CBSSports.com, ESPN, Sporting News and MLB.com to meet in final showdown

10/02/2007, NEW YORK -- MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, announced today that it has brought together eight of the top fantasy baseball players to compete in the first-ever World Series of Fantasy Baseball. The field of participants, who were all season champions from MLB.com and licensed fantasy partners CBSSports.com, ESPN.com and SportingNews.com, will compete in a head-to-head postseason tournament to crown the year's ultimate fantasy baseball champion.    » read more »

10/01/2007 -- The following is the national broadcast schedule for the American League and National League Division Series. TBS will telecast all Division Series games with ESPN Radio providing national coverage.

TBS also will televise tonight's National League Wild Card tie-breaking game between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, as will ESPN Radio. The TBS broadcast will begin at 7:30 p.m. (ET)/5:30 p.m. (MT) and the game's first pitch is scheduled for 7:37 p.m. (ET)/5:37 p.m. (MT).    » read more »

Multi-platform offerings include critical pennant race matchups over final days of regular season

09/27/2007, NEW YORK -- MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, announced today that its exclusive postseason subscription package, which includes the viewing of every postseason game live and on-demand outside of the United States, Canada, South Korea and Japan, is available now at:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index_ps.jsp.    » read more »

09/28/2007 -- Milwaukee Brewers right-handed pitcher Seth McClung, who was issued a three-game suspension yesterday by Major League Baseball and fined an undisclosed amount for "intentionally throwing a pitch at" the Cardinals' Albert Pujols on Wednesday, has had all discipline revoked upon appeal.

John McHale, Major League Baseball Vice President of Administration, heard the appeal.

Source: MLB

One-game tie-breaker, if necessary, would be played on Monday, Oct. 1 and carried by TBS and ESPN Radio

09/27/2007 -- Additional coin tosses were held today by Major League Baseball to determine the sites for various potential two-team tie-breakers that would impact the National League Wild Card. The sites for potential one-game tie-breakers to determine the National League Wild Card are as follows:

Opponents - Site:

ARI vs. NYM - Shea Stadium, New York
ARI vs. SD - PETCO Park, San Diego
ARI vs. COL - Coors Field, Colorado
ARI vs. PHI - Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia    » read more »

09/27/2007 -- Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Seth McClung has been suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing a pitch at Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals in the top of the eighth inning after warnings had been issued to both Clubs earlier during last night's game at Miller Park. Bob Watson, Vice President of On-Field Operations for Major League Baseball, made the announcement.    » read more »

09/28/2007 -- The Board of Directors of Yankee Global Enterprises LLC announced today that Harold Z. (Hal) Steinbrenner has been elected as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Steinbrenner is the General Partner of the New York Yankees and served as a board member of Yankee Global Enterprises LLC, as well as its Executive Vice President and Treasurer. Mr. Steinbrenner is a member of the YES Board of Directors and serves as Chairman and CEO of Steinbrenner Hotel Properties.

Hal graduated from Williams College with a BA and received his MBA from the University of Florida.    » read more »

09/26/2007 -- Major League Baseball announced today that Umpire Mike Winters has been suspended for the remainder of the 2007 regular season for his conduct during Sunday's game between the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park in San Diego.

Source: Major League Baseball