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Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft.

A 16-year-old Japanese girl signed with a regional baseball team Tuesday, becoming the country’s first female professional baseball player.

Say goodbye to the oft-injured would be star who may shine more brightly in Houston.

Huzzahs are being raised for a proposal by two New York lawmakers that Citibank share naming rights to the New York Mets' ballpark, according to the men who advanced the idea.

Lifelong Red Sox fans can now take their love of the team to the next level -- eternity. A Massachusetts funeral home recently took delivery of the first Red Sox casket, which features the team logo on the exterior as well as the inside. The casket is man

This has been a week of mixed emotions for myself and I am sure many Cards fans. It started out with the announcement that none of the Cards free agents were going to be offered arbitration.

Japanese pitcher Junichi Tazawa moved a step closer to signing with the Boston Red Sox after rejecting offers from three other major league teams. The 22-year-old right-hander contacted the Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners and Atlanta Braves on Friday to r

Two New York City Council members say that Citigroup should show its thanks for a federal bailout by sharing the naming rights to the new Mets ballpark in Queens.

The Indiana High School Athletics Association, which is facing a lawsuit filed on behalf of a female Bloomington high school freshman named Logan Young, who doesn't want to play softball with the girls, but rather baseball with the boys.

Javier Vazquez traded to the Braves. Here's a fantasy baseball look at the trade for 2009.