Mike Piazza News

Before Derek Jeter started hitting major league home runs, he played in 1995 Triple-A All-Star game.

Two years earlier, Roger Clemens, who had hit Mike Piazza in the head a few months earlier, insanely threw a broken bat toward the Mets catcher during the 2000 World Series.

We all love the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, the Cubs-Cardinals clashes and the Mets-Phillies series, but the best matchups - rivalry speaking - are what are taking place this weekend.

Too bad for Roger Clemens that he didn't arrive before the age of mass media. He could have been another version of Denton Young, though he hailed from Texas oil country instead of Ohio farmland.

Or in more familiar A's terminology, it's a strained record or a torn record or a surgically repaired record.

Rays 5, Red Sox 3: Valedictorian Carl Crawford was 4-for-4 with an RBI and stole six bases, joining Eddie Collins , Otis Nixon and Eric Young as the only players ever to do so.

Nearly every reputable Dodger era included difference-making youth. From the early days in Los Angeles, featuring the Sandy Koufax - Don Drysdale emergence, to the start of the team's rookie-of-the-year dynasty big Frank Howard in '60 and Jim Lefebvre in '65 to the Ted Sizemore -led "Mod Squad" in the late '60s. To the Steve Garvey - Bill Russell - ...

In the meantime, he's frozen at 498 games behind the plate. Should he average just over 100 games a season behind the plate between now and turning 30, he will join Bench, Parrish, and such luminaries as Pudge Rodriguez and Jason Kendall in this small, historical group.

Mike Piazza spent 16 seasons in the major leagues and is considered by many to be the greatest hitting catcher of all-time. He retired after the 2007 season.

Lincoln Park Academy graduate Ryan Black shot 3-over-par 213 to finish tied for fourth at the Bobcat Invitational in Eatonton, Ga., earlier this week.

After spending three days in the desert to watch the A's and Giants, I'm left with few definitive conclusions about each team.

TORONTO There is no telling where Mike Piazza will go next. Even he does not know.

Some hitting tips from Mike Piazza helped Chris Denorfia and Italy to a big win at the World Baseball Classic.

Today's all-ball edition of The Sporting Muse, dedicated to all dreadlock fans now happy that Manny Ramirez is locked up: Leadership is an intangible that gets a lot of jaw action in sports but ultimately is as ...

For fantasy players, this article's going to be your Holy Grail. Every season, you have all the experts throwing out their All-Fantasy Team, with the year's best performers.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Nomar Garciaparra is on the verge of choosing the Oakland Athletics over retirement.

Oh, it's clicking pretty big for Bobby Crosby right about now. He's getting it, just not the way A's general manager Billy Beane envisioned five years ago.

For two months at the end of 2006, Williams was Oakland's property, claimed on waivers and set loose when the club needed a roster spot for Mike Piazza.

24 to No. 8 this spring. "He's a Hall of Famer and they're retiring his number, so that's a good enough reason," Suzuki said Monday.

Although the A's stole a little bit of the thunder by making early announcements, with Tuesday evening came the official, official announcement.