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Baseball is struggling to hook kids — and risks losing fans to other sports

Rob Albericci saw the curve coming. He saw his son Austin's Little League baseball team struggle to recruit enough kids to fill a roster. He saw the rising demands of Austin's football team, the growing pressure for kids to focus on a single sport, to ...

Paul White: For baseball lifer, game goes on

A year later, there was Baseball Weekly, another winter's focus because the guys who ran our company were appalled that The Sporting News no longer would be printing box scores and said, “We can put together our own publication … can't you?” And ...

In flawed AL East, inconsistency is the only constant

David DeJesus misses the intimidating Yankee Stadium. "I don't feel it's the same, to be honest with you," says the Tampa Bay Rays outfielder, who's known excellence in the Bronx and baseball in the American League East for most of his life. Brooklyn ...

Say hey, baseball: The Red Sox are screwed

Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn't easy. It's okay Going into the season, many expected the team to contend for the American League East title this year after the team finished in last place in the ...

Tanaka tagged for 3 homers in Yankees' 12-4 loss to Tigers

Yankees reliever Sergio Santos is going to have Tommy John surgery after making just two appearances for the team. Santos had 30 saves for the White Sox in 2011 but has been plagued by injuries since then. He was moved to the 60-day DL after the game ...

Athletics lose another close one, 4-2 to Red Sox

The teams played a day after a fan at Fenway Park was struck in the head by a broken bat and suffered life-threatening injuries. Boston Police said Saturday The Red Sox played a highlight of the Belmont Stakes on the center-field scoreboard during ...

Marijuana decriminalization bill sent to Rauner's desk

Napolitano warned that the death of African-American suspects at the hands of police that has triggered demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore, and New York City has police officers across the nation running scared. . As an attorney ...

Commissioner Rob Manfred sees expansion in MLB's future

Manfred, appearing at a Baseball Writers Association of America luncheon at the All-Star Game ... which featured eight players going head-to-head as a clock ticked down on the outfield scoreboard. Cincinnati's Todd Frazier beat the Dodgers' Joc Pederson ...

The ScoreBox® Helps Sports Producers Keep Score Like the Pros

Standard support is provided for baseball ... team stats. The new self-contained OCR feature is an alternate to the system’s standard scoreboard interface. Instead of a direct cable connection, a camera is used to “read” scores and time clock ...

The ScoreBox(r) Helps Sports Producers Keep Score Like the Pros

Now, the company is enabling users to literally "cut the cord" as the latest version of The ScoreBox includes a self-contained optical character recognition (OCR) that allows it to read scores and time clock ... sports. Standard support is provided for ...

Move it: MLB's innings clocks put spring in steps

Major League Baseball's new ... the exhibition season as scoreboard operators are being asked to note any violations that occur. Batters must be in the box with five seconds left and the first pitch must be thrown before the clock hits zero.