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Baseball and Knitting a Hot Double-Play Combo

(April 19) -- Considering the controversy over baseball players injecting steroids with needles, it's ironic if needles are the very things bringing people back to the ballpark. Especially sewing needles. www.meredithknitting.com Astrophysicist Meredith Wills-Davey spent the 2007 season knitting socks dedicated to her...

Baseball Card Artist a Real Cut-Up

(April 8) -- Some folks will do anything in the name of art -- even cut up valuable baseball cards. That's the vision of San Diego-based artist LaVern Brock, who is, so far, the only known artist specializing in the medium of cut-up baseball cards. Brock, 43, takes old baseball cards and cuts them up into collage...

Mets-Phillies Is New Yankees-Red Sox

NEW YORK -- Blasphemy, you'll say, but think about it. What are you going to remember about Tuesday night's Yankees-Red Sox game? David Ortiz's third home run of the year? Nick Green's second? Maybe Josh Beckett, fine, but the fact is this isn't 2003-04 anymore, the Red Sox own the Yankees now and they're both probably...

Reyes, Church to DL; Fernando Martinez to Make Debut for Mets

NEW YORK -- Assuming the rain holds off and they play baseball here at Citi Field Tuesday night, this could be a night for which Mets fans have been waiting excitedly for a while now -- the major league debut of outfield prospect Fernando Martinez.In a slew of pregame moves, the Mets placed shortstop Jose Reyes and right...

Mets Will Give Oliver Perez One More Chance - Against the Phillies

NEW YORK -- Managing Oliver Perez is like trying to climb a sheer, slippery rock. There aren't too many places where you can get a real good grip, so when you find out, you grip it real, real tight.This is where Mets manager Jerry Manuel finds himself. At a loss to explain why Perez's results so often struggle to match up...