Since the Associated Press baseball photo feed is guaranteed to be barren for the next month or so, we thought it might be fun to hold off some theme weeks for our fabled C-a-C contests. This week, it's baseball players and animals.   Say what you will about Marge Schott, but I do miss the...

Minnesota's reaction toward the death of Twins owner Carl Pohlad on Monday has been fascinating to follow.   On one hand, the Twins won two World Series and six division titles in Pohlad's 25 years as owner, his regime hired two great managers in Tom Kelly and Ron Gardenhire, and he was credite...

Since they usually involve faceless minor leaguers, it seems like it's been awhile since baseball has had a drug suspension that anyone talked about past an obligatory headline or mention. To date, only the suspensions of Rafael Palmeiro and Jason Grimsley have gained any traction and that was becau...

Apparently baseball's agents, GMs and corner outfielders appreciate their holiday time just as much as we bloggers do. After a mostly dormant two-week period, the hot stove is cooking  again with the news that Pat Burrell is headed to Tampa Bay for two years while Milton Bradley will sign a thr...

The old saying claims that you can't lead a horse to water and make him drink and apparently the same holds true when it comes to rolling out the bats and balls in China. According to the Associated Press, the 15,000-seat Wukesong Sports Center baseball field has become the first Olympic venue slate...

There are plenty of crazy hobbies out there on the Internet. Some people collect Smurf figurines. Others make homemade Tron costumes. Certain folks spend too much time putting together homemade trailers for a Thundercats movie.  Then there's Scott Mortimer of Merrimack, N.H., who's on a strange...

Born on a cold Chicago morning in early February, Big League Stew was the third blog to pop out of that magical YSB-chute. Now, after 11 months spent simmering, we look back at a year of ingredient gathering that took us from the spring sunshine of Florida and Arizona to the midtown madness of the A...

With some famous figures, there's never any doubt as to how the first line in their obituary will read. And so when former Pirate pitcher Dock Ellis died on Friday, we all knew there was no question that the first summary sentence of his life would involve his claim that he was high on LSD when he t...

Honestly, if someone were to make a website that featured nothing but videos of kids from the '80s opening toys from the '80s on Christmas morning, I'd watch it every day. From the over-exaggerated reactions that we thought our parents wanted to the non-plussed reactions from siblings ("He does...

UPDATE: Or is he? Our own Tim Brown reports that some Braves officials may have jumped the gun in confirming the trade.  Rafael Furcal must have left either his heart, his car keys or his wallet in Atlanta, because it's being reported that the shorstop is headed back to the Braves for a three-y...