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MLB Takes Over Operation of Los Angeles Dodgers

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball is taking the extraordinary step of assuming control of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a team increasingly paralyzed by its owners' bitter divorce. Once among baseball's glamour franchises, the Dodgers have been consumed by infighting since Jamie McCourt filed for divorce after 30 years of...

Ramirez Avoids Drug Ban, at Ease With Retirement

NEW YORK -- Unwilling to face another drug ban, Manny Ramirez is leaving baseball and at peace with his decision while the sport confronts the specter of steroids again. "I'm at ease," Ramirez told ESPNdeportes.com by phone from his home in Miami. "God knows what's best (for me). I'm now an officially retired baseball...

Rays Slugger Manny Ramirez Announces His Retirement

NEW YORK -- Tampa Bay Rays slugger Manny Ramirez told Major League Baseball on Friday that he is retiring after being notified of an issue that arose under MLB's drug policy. The commissioner's office announced Ramirez's decision in a statement, but did not say whether he tested positive for a banned substance. Ramirez...

Giants Fan in Induced Coma as Cops Chase Down Numerous Leads

LOS ANGELES -- A San Francisco Giants baseball fan who was beaten nearly to death at the Dodgers season opener last week remains hospitalized in critical condition today while detectives sort through dozens of leads in an effort to track down the attackers. Bryan Stow, 42, from Santa Cruz, Calif., has signs of brain...

Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan

Baseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa,...

Background on los angeles dodgers mlb

The Los Angeles Dodgers major league baseball team underwent a period of turmoil in management in 2011-2012 that began when Major League Baseball seized control of the team from owner Frank McCourt on April 20, 2011 and ended when the team was sold to new owners on May 1, 2012.

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