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Our old ESPN colleague Peter Gammons had a strongly worded series of tweets a couple days ago: You know, it's amazing it took this long for an organization to realize the potential benefits of purposely being awful, which is what the Astros ar...

In ESPN The Magazine's Sept. 21, 1998 issue, Peter Gammons and Tim Kurkjian writes about Mark McGwire's 60th home run.

Ryne Sandberg has been in his minor league managing limbo for six seasons now. His shot at a major league job is overdue.

Touching gloves before a fight isn't enough to prove what's about to go down is civilized. Nor is a postfight embrace, or posing for a picture together -- bloodied and tattered, like Dan Henderson and Mauricio Rua did after UFC 139 -- while the hemat...

Cooperstown is coming to baseball cards, and it's not just baseball players that Panini America will be including. When Panini's 2012 Cooperstown set arrives in late August, it will include the Nolan Ryans and Ty Cobbs that one would expect -- but...

CHICAGO -- General manager Kenny Williams' latest comment about the immediate future of the Chicago White Sox was a head scratcher to many, but it may have been revealing to at least one of the team's All-Stars. Peter Gammons of the MLB Network an...

In the wake of Peter Gammons' recent comments about Wrigley's purported dumptitude, I had to give the matter some thought. I came to the grudging conclusion long ago that while I may not have a rooting interest in the Cubs (or the White Sox), as a Ch...

OK, it's been all over the news this week: Is Wrigley Field a dump? After Peter Gammons referred to Wrigley as such (and Ozzie Guillen responded in general agreement), Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey wrote that he had called Wrigley a d...

Pedro Martinez is featured in the portrait "El Orgullo y la Determinacion" (Pride and Determination) by Susan Miller-Havens, which was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Friday.

According to Peter Gammons, the Rangers were in the hunt to acquire Matt Garza from the Tampa Bay Rays to the very end -- and he's reporting what Texas was willing to give up. According to Gammons, the Rangers would have sent left-hander Derek Hol...

Today's links are ready for 2011 already ... If you don't want to listen to me about Jeff Bagwell, please listen to Peter Gammons. I'm sure that Texas Rangers management has seen and read garik16's analysis, and signed Brandon Webb anyway. We'l...

As Stuart Miller wrote in the Times yesterday, all the talk about high strikes not being called strikes is far from new: The complaint about high strikes dates back decades. In 1987, Peter Gammons wrote in Sports Illustrated that calling those long...

One of the great baseball books of modern times hits North America's book stores this week. Shockingly, it was written by a guy who was more interested in growing up to be Trevor Hoffman, not Peter Gammons. The book is called The Bullpen Gospels, pu...

Blog | Conversation | March 30, 2010

The push to get Marvin Miller into the Hall of Fame continues apace. Now, as Peter Gammons writes, Miller's old nemesis Ray Grebey has thrown his support behind Miller in a letter to the Hall's board of directors. Miller has Gammons' support, too ......

Mike Stobe/Getty Images A Revealing MRI Jason Bay was going to sign with the Boston Red Sox last season but his knees got in the way. According to Peter Gammons, Bay agreed to sign a six-year, $40 million deal last July but when an MRI revealed ...

According to Peter Gammons, Jason Bay and the Red Sox had agreed to terms for a four-year, $60 million contract last July but the team altered the offer after an MRI raised concerns about both of Bay's knees.Gammons, appearing on NESN on Monday, ...