With Trump championing Pete Rose and pressuring MLB’s commissioner, the Hall of Fame vote became a referendum on power, memory and whether integrity still matters
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World Series Game 7 averaged 51 million viewers in US, Canada and Japan ⊕
Dodgers’ win draws 51m viewers worldwide
Most-watched game since 1991 World Series
Game 7 peaks with 27m across Fox platforms
The Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings…
4 months ago
More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London | Andy Bull ⊖
Royal Albert Hall to host Grand Sumo Tournament marking only the second time a full competition is held overseas
They play Major League Baseball at the Olympic Stadium, Tottenham’s ground is a second …
5 months ago
The Tigers are enduring one of MLB’s greatest-ever meltdowns. And yet there may be hope ○
Detroit are making the wrong kind of baseball history after a late-season freefall threatens a once certain playoff place. But at least they’re now underdogs
On Wednesday night against the Cleveland G…
The robots are (almost) coming: MLB players allowed to challenge balls and strikes in 2026 ○
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Teams will be given two challenges per game
Human umpires will still call balls and strikes
Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competitio…
6 months ago
‘The dream came true’: Major League Baseball gets its first female umpire ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Former art teacher Jen Pawol, 48, says applause from the crowd was ‘very emotional’ when she took to the field
It was, she said, the day “the dream came true”. Jen Pawol, a 48-year-old former art teac…
Jen Pawol to become first woman to umpire Major League Baseball game ○
Pawol will work Marlins-Braves doubleheader
First woman to umpire in MLB regular season
Move follows other major leagues’ gender shifts
Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major Leag…
Braves and Reds break Major League Baseball attendance record at Tennessee racetrack – in pictures ○
A game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway sold more than 85,000 tickets to break MLB’s regular-season record, but was suspended in the first inni…
7 months ago
Giants make history with walk-off inside-the-park home run ○
Patrick Bailey chugged around the bases to defeat the Phillies – the first time a game has been won that way since 2016
Patrick Bailey’s entrance into the Major League Baseball record books on Tuesday…
Debacle in the desert: Will the Athetics’ $1.75bn stadium on the Vegas Strip ever be built? ○
It’s been over two years since the A’s were awarded public funding for their new ballpark. But despite last month’s “groundbreaking”, its completion is anything but certain
It had just turned 8am on a…