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Pete Caldera / NorthJersey.com:
John Sterling, Yankees' legendary broadcaster, has decided to call it a career — NEW YORK - That voice. — That unmistakable, indelible, one-of-a-kind voice. — John Sterling is from an age when baseball announcers had distinct personalities, instantly identified by a greeting, or a catch phrase, or a home run call.
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Ryan Glasspiegel / New York Post:
Yankees voice John Sterling retiring immediately due to health concerns — John Sterling has reached the end of his illustrious Yankees play-by-play career. — The longtime Yankees radio voice is retiring effective immediately, the team announced Monday afternoon, and he will be honored with a ceremony on Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
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Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
Free-agent outfielder Tommy Pham close to minor-league deal with White Sox: Sources — Tommy Pham, the free-agent outfielder who helped the Arizona Diamondbacks reach the 2023 World Series last season only to be unemployed for the next five months, finally is on the verge of finding a new club.
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Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Fritz Peterson, Yankee Pitcher in an Unusual ‘Trade,’ Dies at 82 — He was a leading light on an undistinguished team. But he became known less for his achievement on the field than for exchanging wives with a teammate. — Fritz Peterson, who was a stalwart pitcher for the ineffectual Yankees …
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Michael Blinn / New York Post:
Ex-Yankee Fritz Peterson, who swapped wives with teammate Mike Kekich, dead at 82
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Salvador Perez homers, Bobby Witt Jr. scores 4 times as Royals beat Mets 11-7 — NEW YORK — Salvador Perez hit his milestone 250th homer and Bobby Witt Jr. scored four times to lead the Kansas City Royals to an 11-7 win over the New York Mets on Saturday.
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Mets stop Royals' 7-game winning streak with 6-1 victory behind Severino, Baty and Alonso — NEW YORK — Pete Alonso homered and Luis Severino earned his first win for the New York Mets, who snapped Kansas City's seven-game winning streak Friday night with a 6-1 victory over the Royals.
Associated Press:
Red Sox's Kenley Jansen says slick baseballs hard to control — BOSTON — Kenley Jansen is upset with the quality of baseballs. — “I got to get better, but also if you're playing in the cold weather, windy, and you get pearls balls out there that's not rubbed well, I don't know where the ball's going …
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Brady Farkas / Sports Illustrated:
New York Yankees' Duo Doing Something Not Done in More Than 50 Years in Early Going — The New York Yankees are out to a fantastic start with Aaron Judge and Juan Soto leading the way offensively. Together, the pair is doing something that hasn't been done in the last 50 years of team history in the early going.
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Benjamin Hochman / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louisan Ken Holtzman, who threw 2 no-hitters for Cubs and won 3 World Series for A's, has died — Ken Holtzman, a St. Louis baseball legend who threw two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs, made two All-Star teams and won three World Series with the Oakland Athletics, has died at 78, his brother, Bob, told the Post-Dispatch.
Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal:
How the Biggest Agency in Sports Got Blindsided by the Shohei Ohtani Scandal — The Japanese superstar entrusted almost every aspect of his life to his representatives at CAA, but according to prosecutors, the infrastructure they built around him was easily compromised by Ohtani's interpreter
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ESPN:
Sources: Bad Bunny-led agency faces MLBPA sanctions — William Arroyo, the main baseball agent for the Bad Bunny-led agency Rimas Sports, had his Major League Baseball Players Association certification revoked after a union investigation into complaints from other agents about improper benefits provided …
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Jack Harris / Los Angeles Times:
Shohei Ohtani grateful for investigation into ex-interpreter: ‘Id like to focus on baseball’ — Just hours after Shohei Ohtanis ex-interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, surrendered to authorities Friday on charges that he stole more than $16 million from the Dodgers' two-way star …
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Rob Longley / Toronto Sun:
‘ANGEL ON HIS SHOULDER’: How Blue Jays' Davis Schneider got his family to smile again — It is indeed the day the Schneider family started to smile again and it was so much more than a long-shot son and a brother making a Major League Baseball debut for the ages. — STORY CONTINUES BELOW
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