Baseball

How to Improve Your Baseball Catching Skills

In a baseball scoreboards feature, I have summarized the key skills you need to become a great catcher.

Catching is a very important position in baseball, however its importance is sometimes underrated. Fans admire players who are good throwers or hitters, but at the same time catching plays as almost as big a role in winning as hitting. It is a very demanding position, both physically as well as mentally. The ability to catch is an integral part of being a baseball player. Here are a few baseball scoreboards tips you can use to hone your catching skills.
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The 3 top MLB players who are expected to move to new teams next season

There are many MLB players who deserve to be in a better team for a number of reasons. Perhaps they are simply way better than their teammates, or maybe they are not being utilized properly within the team. The three players in the list below will all probably move to better teams next season, where they will gain from being surrounded with the cream of the baseball world. What is for sure is that the teams they leave behind will suffer a massive loss!
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Which Team Will Cliff Lee Choose – the Yankees or the Rangers?

In a baseball scoreboards news review, we look at the Cliff Less transfer saga. Who will he choose?

The greatest trade currently in MLB is still undecided. Almost every team wants him, but the two most probable teams to whom Cliff Lee will move to is the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. Cliff Lee, who is 31, is looking for a seven year contract. He is a free agent and has played for the Texas Rangers in 2010. Cliff Lee is all over the news channels these days, and for good reason: the baseball scoreboards showed that he finished the 2008 season with 2.54 ERS and a CY award. Recently he led the Texas Rangers through the postseason.
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The Best Free Agents at every position of MLB

For every baseball fan there is just one thing that can complete with the game itself in terms of excitment, and that is the player trades. Rumour and speculation is rife when it comes to trading, and all the time we are hoping that our team gets the guy, and even more important, that our biggest rivals don’t get him! Here are some of the best free agents at every position:
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The Top 3 Highest Paid Baseball Players In MLB

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we talk money, and we’re talking really big money! The top 3 highest players in MLB earn in a week what many people earn in a decade. Who are they and how much do they get?

A few decades back sports used to be a profession for athletes who had a great passion for the game they played. They played it even if they did not get much in return, because at the end of the day they were doing what they loved the most. This is the reason why sports just a few decades ago were relatively free of the various, infuriating and embarrassing scandals that plague many proffesional sports now.
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The Players Have Spoken: The Top 3 Most Overrated Players In MLB

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we look at what the MLB players think of their peers, and who they rate as the most overrated!

Sports Illustrated conducted a survey of one hundred and eighty seven (187) major league players to find the answer to the question that every MLB fan had been pondering over: which player is the most overrated? The answers each player gave were analyzed, and after much deliberation the top 5 were announced. However, once you see the list you will see how the players were not necessarily assessing the candidates according to their level of skill. Instead it seemed they were (being girls!) assessing them on the principle of: from a scale of 1 – 10 how much do I loath this player? Hey, no body said the world was fair and the MLB is right at the bottom! So, without further adieu, here are 3 of the 5 players who have been voted off the MLB island:
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The Greatest 5 Baseball Teams in the US

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we take a look at the top 5 MLB teams. Baseball is an extremely popular game in the US. Every year the World Series Championship is held by the Major League Baseball. This league is further divided into two sub leagues, the National League and the American League. Each league has three divisions, east, west and central. In this article we take a look at the five best baseball teams today.
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Top 5 Surprising Trades in Baseball History

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we look at the top 5 surprising trades in basketball history. Trades often prove to be beneficial for one team, but leave the other team with nothing except to regret their move, or in some cases be glad about it! Players can lose or gain form after a trade, leaving some unexpected victors and losers.

Number 5: Montreal Expos deal with Seattle Mariners to trade in Mark Langston and Mike Campbell for Randy Johnson, Brian Holman and Gene Harris.
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The top four baseball players ever.

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we look at the four greatest basbeall players ever to play the game.

George Herman Ruth (Babe Ruth)

Babe Ruth was born on 6th February 1985 and is known as one of the most famous baseball players to have ever lived. He was nicknamed “The Bambino” and “The Sultan of Swat.” The baseball scoreboards showed that he hit a record of 714 home runs in just 22 seasons and played as a right fielder. Many of his records lasted for decades. From 1914-1935 he was a major American baseball league player and played with the Red Sox for 6 years during which he pitched no less than 29 scoreless innings in a World Series – an outstanding record that lasted for 43 years. In 1920, Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees for what was then a huge fee of $125,000.
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Who is better, the Yankee Alex Rodriguez or Alfonso Soriano?

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we look at two great baseball players. Those who love the sport of baseball revere their favorite players – they follow every pitch they make, every home run they complete, but above all they follow every bit of news about them. And then they love to talk about it; well, more like dissect every aspect about it passionately!

On February 16th 2004, the fans went into frenzy when they realized the rumors about the Yankees trading Alfonso Soriano for Alex Rodriguez with the Texas Rangers were not completely baseless. It was this exchange that brought the two players, Alfonso Soriano and Alex Rodriguez, onto the same platform and sparked one of the most passionately debated topics in baseball history. It was the debate that became the thing fans discussed, and sometimes even fought over; Who is the better Yankee: Alex Rodriguez or Alfonso Soriano? Who truly lights up the baseball scoreboards?
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New York Mets Vs. Houston Astros (1986): The Greatest Baseball Match Ever Played

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we recall what was possibly the most amazing match ever played. Baseball may just be one of the few sports in which individual effort is as equally important, if not more than, the team effort. This is a sport where individuals make up the team, and there might just be an “I” in “team”. I say this because; a great deal depends on the player currently in the spotlight such as the pitcher, the batter or the fielder/catcher. If they fumble and miss, then the entire team misses out. In short, it is the players who make the game a legend.
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Women’s baseball – How women are shedding the image that baseball is only for men

It is getting closer to the World Series, and once again the U.S. turns to its attention to the baseball scoreboards. To men’s baseball, of course. Women here don’t play baseball. Women play softball. But as Baseball Scoreboards news has found out, a University of Nevada political science professor is determined to expose the plight of female baseball players to the world. Her name is Jennifer Ring and after winning a research grant she wrote a book called “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Do Not Play Baseball”. She is also now writing a follow-up book to this one.
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History of baseball in the UK

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we look at the history of baseball in the UK.

Baseball, like many popular sports of today, originated in England. The first mention of it was in 1755, when it was called “base ball.” it was a long time after that though before it became a codified sport. The traditional game of British baseball is played to this day in Wales and North-west England, but only on an amateur level and without any significant spectator participation. A small legion of viewers of Major League Baseball in America watch the British version of the sport through telecasts.
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Baseball attendances – is the decline irreversable?

In baseball scoreboards news, we will look at the slow but gradual decline of baseball in the US. What is going on and why?

The San Diego Padres played the first of four games against the Chicago Cubs recently. The Cubs are undoubtedly a popular franchise nationwide, so much so that sometimes they bring more fans to an apposing stadium than the home team. However, according to the baseball scoreboards, the Petco Park stadium on a perfect baseballing evening drew just 22,800 supporters, which is less than 55% of the stadium’s capacity.
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The fantastic success story of baseball In Japan

In baseball scoreboards news, we will look at the development of baseball in Japan.

The most popular team sport in Japan is not soccer, like many people think, but baseball. There are national leagues at school, university and professional level. These games are covered feverously in the media during the spring and summer. Japan is one of the very few countries other than the US where baseball is played professionally and where it has a large following.
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The early history of baseball in the US

In a baseball scoreboards feature, we will look at the history of baseball in the US.

Most baseball historians accept that the game baseball comes from the English game called rounders. When and how the rules first morphed no one is quite sure. Sources suggest that in the early 1900’s a game called townball or baseball grew in popularity.
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The 3 worst MLB teams ever.

The story of the worst baseball teams ever starts in the 1800’s, with the Cleveland Spiders, and ends just 7 years ago with the Detroit Spiders. In between them somewhere there was another shocking team – the New York Mets. All of these teams displayed a distinguished ability to flop. Their performances were not only bad, they were quite simply woeful. The only small cloud in the silver lining for these teams is that we get to commemorate them all this time later, and for the Detroit Spiders, specifically, that they, due to an interesting turn of events, actually received a standing ovation when they left the field on their last game, despite having the worse record of any team for two generations.
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The womens baseball world cup, the most dangerous city in the world, and a stray bullet.

In baseball scoreboards news: Caracas, Venezuela is generally considered the most dangerous city in the world, where an average of over 25 people are day are murdered. Perhaps then it is not so surprising that the women’s baseball world championship has been moved to fully militarized stadiums outside of the city the day after a player was shot in the stadium during a game.
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Baseball Betting – will the Yankees win the AL East?

Baseball scoreboards news: The question on baseball bettors minds is, should the New York Yankees be considered as one of the favorites for the AL East division. Currently, the New York Yankees are tied with the Tampa Bay Rays, but this is not reflected in the odds. In fact, as we speak the team from New York is a -180 favorite to win the division. Many people think that the Rays have not been given sufficient credence, as they are priced at +140. Perhaps even more surprising is that the Boston Red Sox are priced at +2000.
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Alex Rodriguez reaching 600 home runs was a bore fest for fans

Alex Rodriguez Reaching 600 Home Runs Was A Bore Fest For Fans The baseball scoreboards showed that the big 600 mark was reached last week, but very few people noticed it. The great Alex Rodriguez ended his recent drought by hitting over the barrier for his 600 home run. Seven men have reached that number, but no one took as long to get from the 599 to the sacred 600 mark. There was a time when this would have been massive news, brightening up the back and front pages of the newspapers. Journalists would have given a detailed account of the amazing career of the batsman, and supply readers with more stats than they could manage. This, however, has certainly not been the case with Alex Rodriguez.
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