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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 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)

Be Hit in Aggie Baseball Gear

GOODWELL, Okla., July 17 -- Oklahoma Panhandle State University issued the following news release:Rookies sports of Edmond, Okla. and OPSU Baseball are offering an excellent selection of clothing, accessories and other items at discounted prices for a limited time.Now through August 5 students, ... (Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News)

Academy Select Baseball Gears Up to Host Baseball Tournament

Academy Select Baseball, a non-profit baseball organization dedicated to helping develop and showcase youth talent, announced its Premier Showcase Baseball Tournament to be held Saturday Sept. 15. According to a release, the event will take place at Dr Pepper Ballpark, home of the Frisco ... (Publication: Entertainment Close-up)

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))