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On January 5, 1989, Major League Baseball signed a $400 million deal with ESPN, who would show over 175 games beginning in 1990.For the next four years, ESPN would televise six games a week (Sunday Night Baseball, Wednesday Night Baseball and doubleheaders on Tuesdays and Fridays), as well as multiple games on Opening Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day.
Dan Shulman- play-by-play (1995–2022) Sunday Night Baseball,- 2002-2007 - ESPN Radio and 2011-2017- ESPN Monday Night Baseball 1995-2017 and Wednesday Night Baseball 1995-2022, Select MLB Regular Season games - mostly on Holidays; Jayson Stark: reporter (2003–2017) Baseball Tonight; Steve Stone: analyst (2005–2006) ESPN DayGame
[17] [18] In the strike-interrupted 1981 season, he batted .311 while tying Cecil Cooper for the major league lead with 35 doubles; he was the Cubs' sole representative at the All-Star Game, [19] where he grounded out to first base pinch hitting for Manny Trillo in the 9th inning of a 5–4 NL victory, their 10th consecutive All-Star win.
Now, with a 1-and-2 count, Flaherty threw another 79-mph curvebal. ... His impact in just one season with the most storied franchise in baseball has placed him back on the game’s biggest stage ...
Catchings would lead the Indiana Fever to their first-ever WNBA title over the Minnesota Lynx in 2012 and earn WNBA Finals MVP for efforts after averaging 22.3 points per game, six rebounds, 3.5 ...
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
Shohei Ohtani, once talked about as being unmarketable, crossed the line from MLB star to "transcendental" athlete, landing in spaces not often occupied by baseball players, much less athletes ...
Pitcher Nolan Ryan was the first player to earn an annual salary above $1 million, signing a $4.5 million, 4-year contract with the Houston Astros in 1979. [6] Kirby Puckett and Rickey Henderson signed the first contracts which paid an average of $3 million a year in November 1989.