An alleged gunman and five accomplices have been arrested in the shooting of former Red Sox superstar David Ortiz, Dominican officials said Wednesday, while providing no information about why a group of young men would try to kill their country’s most beloved sports hero.
Read moreDavid Ortiz was back in Boston on Monday night for medical care, a day after authorities said the former Red Sox slugger affectionately known as Big Papi was ambushed by a gunman at a bar in his native Dominican Republic.
Read moreFormer Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was hospitalized Monday following surgery for a gunshot wound after being ambushed by a man in a bar in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said.
Read moreBill Buckner was an All-Star and batting champion, a gritty gamer who was welcome on any team. A reliable fielder, too. But a little grounder forever changed his legacy.
Read moreRetired outfielder Lenny Dykstra sued his former New York Mets teammate Ron Darling for defamation Tuesday, claiming Darling’s new book falsely accuses Dykstra of hurling racial slurs at a black Boston Red Sox pitcher during a World Series game.
Read moreUnable to mediate a dispute over television fees with their cross-town rivals, the Washington Nationals asked a judge Monday to stop the Baltimore Orioles from forum shopping.
Read moreJulia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth and a decades-long champion of his legacy, has died at 102, her family said
Read moreTwo Milwaukee Brewers fans claim in a federal complaint that the club offers only “small, comparably inferior” seating to wheelchair-using patrons, in a “wheelchair ghetto.”
Read moreJohn Wetteland, a former World Series MVP, has been charged in Texas with continuous sex abuse of a child under age 14.
Read moreRawlings sells baseball bats that don’t weigh what the label says and hitters’ performances are negatively affected, according to a putative federal class action filed Thursday.
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Saying he got “caught in the cross-fire” of the war on ticket resellers, a stock broker sued the New York Yankees on Thursday for voiding the nine season tickets he purchased for a whopping $134,000.
Read moreMajor League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse a finding that sports teams must pay sales taxes on collectible bobblehead toys and other giveaways to fans on game days.
Read moreThe Supreme Court is leaving in place a court decision dismissing a lawsuit filed against the Chicago Cubs by the owners of rooftop clubs adjacent to Wrigley Field.
Read moreA collector of vintage baseball memorabilia claims in court that Beckett Auctions refuses to return, or pay him for, a consignment worth $560,000. The collection includes a uniform worn by Joe DiMaggio and baseballs signed by Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the 1927 New York Yankees
Read moreA longtime provider of roasted peanuts to Oriole Park claims in court that lax quality controls by its farm suppliers led to a roasted mouse being sold to a spectator and the ensuing cancellation of the vendor’s contract.
Read moreSportsMedia Technology Corp. claims in a federal complaint that MLB Advanced Media has been willfully infringing a patent for a data-tracking system called PITCHf/x for the the entire 2017 baseball season, and that the same breaches and damage will occur again for the 2018 season.
Read moreMinor league baseball players who make as little as $5,500 a season were stripped of the protection of federal minimum wage laws under a provision in government spending legislation signed Friday.
Read moreA former Major League Baseball player claims in court that ESPN, the Associated Press and USA Today published a defamatory news article that falsely accused him and his company of selling banned performance enhancing substances to professional baseball players.
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