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NOT everyone saw The Shot Heard ‘Round The World. Frank Sinatra was just one of a clutch of celebrities packed inside the Polo Grounds on October 3, 1951 to watch his beloved New York Giants clinch baseball’s National League pennant against local rivals the Brooklyn Dodgers. When Bobby Thomson, the Glaswegian batter, struck his three-run home run to send the Giants to the World Series, however, Sinatra was temporarily distracted. His friend, the actor Jackie Gleason, had just been sick all over his lap. “Here is one of the all-time classic games and I don’t see Bobby Thomson hit that...

Down here, we just get a litterbox in lieu of a bullpen. Hmmmph!Forget a team that, you know, makes the playoffs more than once a decade. At this point, we'd settle for the Marlins simply providing us with a cat pretending to DJ on the jumbotron. Unfortunately, the latest stroke of genius that MLB doesn't allow anyone to imbed has come straight from the bowels of our in-state rivals the Rays, who not only top their division but ACTUALLY HAVE A CAT PRETENDING TO DJ ON THE JUMBOTRON (click to see your Friday productivity go flying out the window). A...

SAN JUAN Puerto Rico - While Cuba played the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, a spectator in the stands raised a sign saying: "Down with Fidel," sparking an international incident that escalated Friday with the velocity of a major league fastball. The image of the man holding the sign behind home plate was beamed live Thursday night to millions of TV viewers - including those in Cuba. The top Cuban official at the game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan rushed to confront the man. Puerto Rican police quickly intervened and took the Cuban official _ Angel Iglesias,...