Baseball

The votes have been counted and Battle Creek's baseball team is ready to announce its new name!

If you're a baseball fan and like exploring the history of the game, we hope you have a really big piggy bank.

This is a rather unusual item to find on an auction site, but it does include a signature.

After an earth-shaking announcement last week from the Battle Creek Baseball Team, formerly the Battle Creek Bombers, about seven names chosen for voting on a new team name, adjustments have now been made. Now four nicknames, including two from the original contest, will be voted on for the new team name. ...

If you're a hardcore baseball fan a trip to the Detroit Tigers website in December may not be that unusual, unless you visited today and noticed all the players had strangely disappeared.

As I type this, the baseball playoffs are starting in minutes and the White Sox are playing the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the ALDS. If you haven't lived anywhere but here, you may have trouble understanding this, because if you're from Michigan, everybody here is pretty much all in. U of M fans don't really hate MSU fans. It's more like a big brother, little brother relationship, and besides, we all hate Ohio State. When the Red Wings win, or the Pistons, pretty much everybody is cheering. If, and I know it feels like I'm taking fiction and fairy tales, but if the Lions ever win, it'll be like the Cubs, and the whole darned country will be pulling for them.

Chicago White Sox Hall of Famer Frank Thomas and investors are buying the "Field of Dreams" complex in Dyersburg, Iowa.

It seems like forever ago, but the day has finally arrived. Kalamazoo's Derek Jeter is being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today.

There is one small reason the Kalamazoo Growlers are getting millions of views.

The Michigan vs. Ohio rivalry just got a lot bigger this weekend.