Mark McGwire News

If I had to bet, I'd say least half of those reading this can immediately name where that image of Fred McGriff is from.

Baseball fans, set the WABAC Machine 20 years into the past, May 27, 1992, as the Oakland Athletics host the Cleveland Indians on a pleasant Wednesday afternoon at the Coliseum.

Any time a new season starts, analysts and fans alike look to speculate on just who might have a breakout season, and just how far they may be able to take it.

The team was established back in 1883 under several nicknames before finally becoming the Dodgers in 1932.

If the sight of Fantasy players virtually running out and grabbing Matt Adams seems familiar, it's because it is.

Even as a baseball fan, it can be terribly difficult to figure out what "old school baseball" means.

Few personnel changes in sports are as paradoxical as hiring a new hitting coach in the middle of a baseball season.

The greatest American sitcom, The Simpsons , hasn't mined the great American pastime, baseball, for terribly much material over its two-decade-plus lifespan, but when it has, it's yielded great results.

Smith column: Angels slugger Albert Pujols is a pitchman for OhYeah! Nutrition, which has given a makeover to the Angels dugout and bullpen and soon, perhaps, a grocery store near you.

Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood holds the strike out flag that flew over Wrigley Field after his 20 strike out game in 1998, as he announces his retirement from baseball at Wrigley Field on Saturday, May 19, 2012.

I'm not a huge sports fan, but if I were to pick a favorite professional sport to watch it would be baseball and my team would definitely be the Oakland A's . No question.

Today's minor league baseball notable startin pitchers - Deck McGuire Felix Sterling, Yordano Ventura, Gerrit Cole , Zack Wheeler , Taylor Jungmann , Jesse Biddle... Adam Jones is first player since Mark McGwire in 1988 to hit a HR in the 15th inning or later in multiple games in the same season.

To avoid a forfeit and fine, manager Hugh Jennings recruited college players and others; they lost to the Philadelphia A's 24-2. Joe Travers gave up all 24 runs on 26 hits.

Trying to project Josh Hamilton's home run total is a futile - but fun - exercise.

Now that 19-year-old phenom Bryce Harper is hitting home runs, don't plan on him stopping anytime soon.

Reaching certain milestones in baseball, such as the 3,000 hit mark, are a big deal.

Sometimes we get second chances in life, but rarely is the world of fantasy sports as forgiving.

He also collects two hits himself. In fact no other batter on either team has as many.

People who watched Andy Pettitte pitch in Rochester last weekend said he wasn't ready to face Major League hitters.

Fifteen years later, the vision of a spooked Mariano Rivera is still embedded in my cranium.