Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Tampa Bay Rays will travel to the Cuban capital of Havana later this month for an exhibition game against the country’s national team, it has been confirmed.

Major League Baseball franchise the Boston Red Sox has broken away from the league’s collective secondary ticketing deal by launching its own in-house resale platform.

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) president Riccardo Fraccari has hailed the success of the inaugural Premier12 event as representing another example of how baseball could serve the Olympic sports programme.

Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred has said the organisation is “working hard” on the prospect of staging regular-season games in London in 2017, but has maintained that expansion or the relocation of existing franchises is not on the immediate agenda.

Major League Baseball (MLB) has revealed it is to return to the Mexican market for the first time since 2004 after confirming that the San Diego Padres and Houston Astros will play a pair of Spring Training games in Mexico City this March.

Barry Wilner looks at the $500m facelift of one of Major League Baseball’s historic venues and asks: is evolution better than revolution?

The MLB International (MLBI) division of Major League Baseball has appointed Charles Hill as managing director of Major League Baseball Europe, Middle East and Africa, as the North American organisation seeks to further expand its global presence.

Turner Field, the centrepiece of the 1996 summer Olympic Games and current home of Major League Baseball franchise the Atlanta Braves, is set to be sold to Georgia State University and local real estate company Carter.

The Milwaukee Brewers are described by Major League Baseball (MLB) as “the model” for the sport’s use of offfield analytics, despite being one of its smaller-market and, in playing terms, less-successful franchises.

Fantex, a brokerage that enables sports fans to buy and sell shares in future earnings of athletes it has a stake in, has announced plans to begin trading a portfolio of its clients under a single symbol on the Nasdaq North American stock exchange.

Magnus Media, a company founded by Latin music superstar Marc Anthony, has moved into sports management with the inception of Magnus Sports, a division dedicated to representing professional athletes.

The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), a body that represents athletes in the North American MLB competition, has launched what it claims is a first-of-its-kind online social media platform in an effort to improve communication between players and fans.

Major League Baseball team the Tampa Bay Rays will play an exhibition match in Cuba next year, if an agreement between MLB officials and the Cuban government for the staging of the game can be reached.

Major League Baseball (MLB) has said its hopes to stage regular-season games in Europe and Mexico in the next five years, while the league has become the first pro-sports competition in North America to partner with integrity solutions provider Sport Integrity Monitor (SportIM).

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) will this month stage the inaugural edition of its Premier12 tournament. Andy Fry reports.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced that the 2019 edition of its men's Softball World Championship will take place in the Czech Republic cities of Prague and Havlickuv Brod, with the women's event being staged in Chiba, Japan.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has named Fukushima as a host city for an event next year in a move that is designed to help raise awareness and support the local region's continuing recovery following the disaster that struck in 2011.

Major League Baseball (MLB) and its Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) division are to lead sport’s uptake on Twitter’s new ‘Moments’ feature.