Baseball News

Dusty Baker isn't simply a retired baseball player and manager. And he was, and is, good at both. But there is so much more to the most interesting man in baseball.

While everyone else watched Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa hit homers in 1998, the Yankees had one of MLB's greatest seasons -- but it has been largely lost to history. And that still irks Joe Torre.

Major League Baseball has told its teams they can resume scouting activity, sending up to three scouts to each amateur event this summer, a source told ESPN.

The biggest KBO news of the week came from the bottom of the standings, where the Hanwha Eagles snapped an 18-game slide.

No doubt the great home run race of '98 helped rebuild baseball after a World Series was canceled. But here's what else played a huge part.