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Braves Open Spring Training With Loss

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) -- The first game of spring training can provide some unusual scenarios. Such as Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera facing Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel -- in the third inning. Coming off baseball's first Triple Crown season since 1967, Cabrera grounded out against Kimbrel before finishing his day with ...

Security in place, already making rounds for Daytona 500

In less than three days, the Daytona International Speedway will host the Daytona 500, and there will be heavy security with everything on-hand from bomb-sniffing dogs to police on motorcycles. In the crowd with tens of thousands of fans who come to watch the race, it’ll be hard to spot ...

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Casey Janssen throws a pitch in the bullpen during baseball spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

Spring training 2013

Spring is in the air, and nothing hints at it more than Major League Baseball's spring training... despite snow in Arizona.

Seven-time league MVP Barry Bonds leads this year's Hall of Fame ballot. Considered one of baseball's best hitters, the all-time home run leader (762) has been associated with performance-enhancing drugs. He holds the major league record for base-on-balls (2,558) and single-season home run (73). Bonds was a .298 career hitter with 2,935 hits. Candidates need 75 percent of the vote for induction. Voting results will be announced Jan. 9. | Polarizing ballot

Controversial first-timers on Hall of Fame ballot

24 new players are up for voting in this year's Hall of Fame ballot. Inductees will be announced Jan. 9, 2013.

San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, left, and second baseman Marco Scutaro, right, of Venezuela, smile while standing at the podium during the baseball team's World Series victory celebration at City Hall Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in San Francisco. Sandoval was the World Series MVP and Scutaro was the MVP of the National League Championship Series. The team's second championship in three years included a parade along Market Street and ended with a celebration in front of City Hall. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)

Giants celebrate World Series victory in SF

Tens of thousands of people decked out in the team's holiday-appropriate orange and black stood 30 deep behind barriers, climbed trees, camped out overnight and mounted rooftops for a chance to see their favorite players wave from convertibles and get serenaded by Tony Bennett singing "I Left My Heart in ...

Hamilton had a sub-par year but managed 43 homers, while batting .285 with 162 strikeouts. He hit .304, 161 homers over a six-year career. Hamilton made $13.75 million this season.

Baseball free agents

Take a look at the top names who could possibly be free agents this offseason.

Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones acknowledges cheering fans at Turner Field.

Chipper Jones’ career by the moments

On the eve of his retirement, Chipper Jones discussed some of the “best of” moments his career, from his most embarrassing moment to his proudest: Pitcher you loved to face: “Shane Reynolds. He was a hunting buddy of mine and I think I got the most homers off him of ...

Windermere Falls In Softball World Series Final

Windermere needed extra innings to win their semifinal matchup Wednesday. But they didn't have enough left in the tanks for the Little League Softball World Series Championship losing 16-1 to a hard-hitting team from New Mexico. Windermere, which was trying to become the first team from central Florida to win ...

Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Bartolo Colon, a former Cy Young Award winner, was suspended for 50 games on Aug. 22, after testing positive for testosterone. Colon joined San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera on the suspended list for the rest of the regular season. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Jose Luis Villegas)

Baseball players linked to performance drugs

Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera is the latest MLB player to be suspended for a positive drug test.

Local Teams Chasing Little League Titles

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL Two teams from central Florida are closing in on the championship games at Little League World Series tournaments. Rockledge LL (3-0) is undefeateated at the Junior League World Series in Taylor, Michigan and can clinch the United States pool with a win over New York on Thursday ...

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