Pin ItemailprintRyan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers has just been named the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Braun, 28, received 20 of 32 first-place votes from the Association. His 388 total points eked out Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who got 10 first-place votes and 332 [...]
Watch below as FBC graduate Max Ashton throws a perfect strike to get the crowd psyched as the Arizona Diamondbacks swept the Milwaukee Brewers at home to force a do-or-die game Game 5 in Milwaukee on October 7. Max throws this ball better than most people who can see! Check it out below. Watch more [...]
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Is it just me, or are these random acts of kindness at the ballpark happening more and more often? In the video below, Ian McMillan manages to be the lucky recipient of a baseball thrown into the stands at an Arizona Diamondbacks game. Ian sees that another boy is upset that he didn’t catch the [...]
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Roberto Alomar, a 12-time All-Star second baseman, and Bert Blyleven, a right-handed pitcher who won 287 games, have been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, it was announced on Wednesday. The duo will be inducted in Cooperstown, New York, on July 24, 2011, along with ex-GM Pat Gillick, sportswriter Bill Conlin, and veteran Montreal [...]
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Back in May, Gabrielle Schoeneweis, the wife of then Arizona Diamondbacks reliever Scott Schoeneweis, was found dead. She was 39 at the time. On Tuesday, the autopsy results were released. The findings indicate that Gabreille Schoeneweis died from an overdose of cocaine and lidocaine (an anesthetic). The court also ruled that her cocaine use “may [...]
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A terrible tragedy tonight in the world of baseball, Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis, wife of Diamondbacks relief pitcher Scott Schoeneweis, was found dead at the couple’s home in Fountain Hills, Arizona on Wednesday afternoon. The Schoeneweis’ 14-year-old daughter notified police upon discovering her 39-year-old mother laying on the floor in her parents’ bedroom. When police officers [...]
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