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Major League Baseball (MLB) is the pre-eminent baseball league in North America. Each season concludes with a World Series finale. The defending champions are the Chicago Cubs.

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New general manager of Miami Marlins is first Chinese-American and woman to take up such an MLB post and comes at a time when an easing in tensions between Washington and Beijing would be welcome.

Jeon captivated the audience when she threw the first pitch at a Dodgers exhibition match ahead of the MLB season kick-off – even team members Freddie Freeman and Tyler Glasnow couldn’t look away

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The Japanese baseball superstar threw a curveball when he suddenly revealed in early March he was married – he called his wife a ‘normal Japanese woman’, but she played basketball for Fujitsu Red Wave

Tickets to the six-game series – two regular-season games between the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, plus four exhibition games with Korean teams – are selling at five times face value.

Rising baseball talent Paul Skenes recently threw a triple-digit heater that blew up on social media – but that’s nothing compared to the attention his girlfriend Livvy Dunne gets on TikTok …

With the ink still wet on a US$700 million contract with Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Yoshinobu Yamamoto – whose fastball averages 153km/h – for US$325 million for 12 years

Shohei Ohtani, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer are among baseball’s top earners for the year, with lucrative contracts and big brand endorsements

Only 1,800 people live on Deokjeok island, but a new baseball programme is looking to inject new life into the region struggling to retain, and attract, youngsters, like many rural areas in the world’s most rapidly ageing society.

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The local Iwate Nippo newspaper published about 16,000 copies of an extra edition the same day of Shohei Ohtani’s record US$700 million, 10-year contract with the LA Dodgers.

He earned US$60 million in 2023, and generated more than US$330 million in revenue for his team and advertising sponsors in 2022, so who is Shohei Ohtani?

Ohtani joining Los Angeles Dodgers in 10-year deal after leaving crosstown rivals Angels, and says on Instagram, ‘I apologise for taking so long to come to a decision.’

Texas Rangers have reached baseball’s World Series for the first time since 2011, but the band mistakenly wore retro Glasgow Rangers football shirts in Dallas.

K-pop stars might typically date fellow celebs in the entertainment industry, but idol-athlete power couples happen sometimes too – here are four to know

After intense backlash, Stephen A Smith said he ‘screwed up’ for his ‘regrettable’ take on Japanese MLB player Shohei Ohtani’s need for an interpreter.

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Australian Open champion wins two awards with Los Angeles Angels star and golfer Kim Sei-young among other winners in record haul for Asians and Asian-Americans at ESPYs.

State Governor Greg Abbott, who ordered Texas’ full reopening and ending of mask mandates, pulls out of the ceremonial first pitch in protest at MLB-Atlanta stadium All-Star decision.

Decision to move All-Star game and Tencent deal has politicised baseball’s ties with China and brought criticism from Republican figures such as former US president Donald Trump.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says relocation is demonstration of ‘values as a sport’ after Georgia governor Brian Kemp introduces sweeping changes to voting laws.