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For years, Pete Rose has said he only bet on baseball as a manager and not a player. However, new court documents are saying otherwise. According to the ESPN series Outside the Lines, Rose bet on games while he was playing. The documents are from copies of a notebook seized from the home of Rose's former associate Michael Bertolini back in 1989. Authorities say the authenticity of this evidence was verified by two sources that were a part of that '89 raid. The evidence also shows that the mob had a mortgage on him while he was both a player and manager. Read More »
The last time Matt Harvey threw a pitch at Citi Field was Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. It wasn't a good outing. The powerhouse Detroit Tigers laid a beatdown on him. Up until that point, Harvey was great and it turned out the shelling was due to a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. Now that Harvey has returned, though, the New York Mets are hoping for him to bounce back in a big way. As a matter of fact, they expect him to be the second coming of Dwight "Doc" Gooden by being a top ace in the league and having the ability to draw fans to the ballpark. He's beginning to draw Gooden-level attendance numbers. Knowing Harvey is taking his cannonball right arm to the mound for the second game at Citi Field, ticket sales soared. The "Harvey Effect," much like the "Gooden Effect," helped draw more than 40,000 people to the seats for the Tuesday game. That's only a few thousand off from the 2013 All-Star Game's number of 43,947 fans. Gooden's attendance numbers were eerily similar. In the 18 games he started at Shea Stadium, he drew an average of 40,072 fans. For every other game, the average attendance was 34,005. Read More »
The Major League Baseball offseason is a cold and lonely time. Thankfully, we have Yasiel Puig's reckless party-themed Instagram account to keep us busy, offering a window to a life we can live carelessly, vicariously through. Read More »
Torii Hunter was a dynamic yet fairly overlooked player of the early 2000s, maybe because his name was never linked to any drug-related controversy, or maybe because his Twins never reached a World Series despite four playoff appearances. Either way, here's what he accomplished in his first go-around in the Twin Cities, in case you forgot. Read More »
New York Mets ace Matt Harvey isn't afraid of making headlines or being seen, and Tuesday, Dec. 2, he met the media in anticipation of his return season to the mound. Harvey, who missed all of 2014 after undergoing Tommy John surgery after bursting onto the scene as one of baseball's best pitchers in 2013, hinted vaguely at a playoff prediction for his normally moribund Mets. "I don't think it's going to be easy to skip starts — I don't think any pitcher is going to want to really do that," Harvey said, about taking small rests throughout the season, according to "USA Today." "But to be able to pitch in October is going to be more important." The Mets haven't sniffed October since 2006, after historic collapses in 2007 and 2008 seemed to serve as a middle-finger prerequisite to troubling times ahead. Soon after came the Bernie Madoff scandal and half a decade of futility. Then, in 2013, Harvey came along and stole the baseball spotlight. He started the 2013 All-Star Game and posted a 2.27 ERA in 26 starts. Read More »
Ten players were suspended for use of stimulants — 8, including Orioles' slugger Chris Davis, tested positive for Adderall — but overall the performance-enhancing drug culture once perverse in the sports seems all but eradicated. Read More »
Mariah Carey and Major League Baseball are teaming up to put on a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn. All proceeds from the concert will benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. Read More »
