Baseball

The 34-year-old former softball catcher, who is the first woman to manage a minor league baseball team, led the Tampa Tarpons to a 9-6 win in Friday night's season opener against the Lakeland Flying Tigers.

The New York Yankees announced her hiring as a minor league manager in January.

Rachel Balkovec just became the first woman manager of the Tampa Tarpons and the first woman ever to reach that level in Major League Baseball. But Balkovec isn't planning on stopping there.

NPR's Scott Simon offers his thoughts on why the value of baseball cards shouldn't be measured in dollars.

She is leaving her senior vice president position at Major League Baseball to join the Miami team. Over all, Ng has three decades of baseball experience.

The man who helped bring an NBA team to Orlando now wants to bring a Major League Baseball team to the theme park mecca.Pat Williams, a former executive…

A group of business and professional people said they're making progress in a push to lure the Tampa Bay Rays from their home in St. Petersburg to a new…

Florida used to be the premier spot for Major League Baseball’s spring training, but a growing number of professional teams are heading to Arizona instead…

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 7 to 3 on Opening Day Sunday, perhaps fueling the optimism of fans in the team's 20th year.The beginning of a…

MLB spring training is well underway, and there's a lot of talk about multimillion dollar renovations at Tampa Bay area stadiums. They're supported in…

For baseball fans, spring training means winter is almost over and pennant dreams can be renewed. But in Florida, baseball’s six week warm-up means big…

Imagine a baseball park that is free and open to the public when no games are scheduled. Imagine real grass but with a roof to shield you from Florida’s…