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Sales Rise for San Antonio-Based Baseball Gear Retailer.

By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 22--As a kid playing Little League baseball, Pat Cowles used an old wooden Louisville Slugger bat. "If the bat broke you put a screw in it, taped it and kept on playing," Cowles said. Wooden Louisville Slugger bats are

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Big save; Police recover stolen car, baseball gear

Prior to their Monday night game, Kleckner Siding baseball team head coach Steven Torres tells his players how their baseball gear had been stolen along with his car over the weekend. Catcher Alex Torres (left) gets some help from teammate Cody Latino with catcher's equipment provided by Johno's

Publication: The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)

Program supplying baseball gear to soldiers runs into red tape.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Annie Calovich Operation Home Run-Kansas has not been able to get out of the park. Boxes of baseball equipment and other sports gear that people have donated for soldiers in Iraq sits in a warehouse in southwest Wichita, waiting for a ride out of the United States. So far, government

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

Baseball gear from McGwire goes on display in Hall of Fame lobby

JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer AP Online 09-10-1998 COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) _ Less than 24 hours after an armed escort delivered it to the Hall of Fame, the baseball that Mark McGwire slammed for his record-breaking 62nd home run went on display in the main lobby. And the fans were there waiting for

Publication: AP Online

Baseball gear stuck on third

PLEASANT GROVE -- Operation Home Run is stuck on the proverbial third base. Some 10,000 pounds of donated baseball equipment that a Pleasant Grove teenager collected as a gift to Afghani youth is still sitting in a storage shed."We've hit a bit of a bump in transportation road," said Kim Inks, who

Publication: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

Baseball gear lost in theft

LA HABRA - Aaron Meacham has been a coach for Whittier Little League Baseball for seven years, using a glove he has owned since he was a teenager. Last week, that Spaulding fielder's glove he used to run drills with his team, the Athletics, and about $300 worth of baseball equipment belonging to

Publication: Whittier Daily News

School's baseball gear stolen: CONCORD: $4,000 worth of brand-new equipment vanishes on eve of first practice.

Byline: Malaika Fraley Jan. 4--Stolen bases, good. Stolen baseballs, not so much. Police are looking for the person who broke into a Concord High School storage shed and stole $4,000 worth of new baseball equipment on the eve of the team's first practice. All was well when Coach Matt Harrod visited

Publication: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)

Baseball Gears Up for Intriguing Half

PITTSBURGH - Nobody expected the Detroit Tigers to have the best record in baseball at the All-Star break, and everyone wants to see if they can keep it up. Especially their old-school manager, Jim Leyland. "We've got a little something going, we really do, we just have to take advantage," he said.

Publication: AP Online

JUST THE TICKET; As baseball gears up for spring training, it appears the Twins are one of Florida's hot tickets. Another big draw: The uncursed Red Sox train nearby.(NEWS)

Byline: Paul Levy; Staff Writer Tickets to Twins spring training games are moving as quickly as a Johan Santana fastball. As pitchers and catchers reported to training camp in Fort Myers, Fla., on Sunday and with the rest of the team scheduled to arrive by Friday, ticket sales for next month's

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)

Who's ready for seconds?: Baseball gears up for stretch run

PITTSBURGH - Nobody expected the Detroit Tigers to have the best record in baseball at the All-Star break, and everyone wants to see if they can keep it up. Especially their old-school manager, Jim Leyland."We've got a little something going, we really do, we just have to take advantage," he said.

Publication: The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV)