Fifty-four years ago, in announcing the inaugural award, SI wrote that the annual honoree would be one who "gave to the quality of unprecedented performance the sense of unrepeatable performance. 

OVER the past few months, as the economy has tanked, I have received a higher volume of e-mails from fans frustrated at the amounts being offered to players. 

Career stolen bases leader Rickey Henderson heads 10 first-time candidates on this year's Hall of Fame ballot, joining holdover Jim Rice, who is eligible for the final time. 

In June the 30 teams of Major League Baseball each drafted a Negro Leaguer who never played in the majors. 

We live in hectic times. 

TheNewYorkYankees declined salary arbitration with all eight of their former players who became free agents, a group that includes pitcher Andy Pettitte and right fielder Bobby Abreu. 

Although it seemed as if he would never stay retired long enough to make it happen, Rickey Henderson made the 2009 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, it was announced Monday. 

SEATTLE -- TheSeattleMariners have hired A's hitting coach Ty Van Burkleo as bench coach. 

The Yankees finished a disappointing year in which they snapped a string of 13 straight playoff appearances. 

Amid all the questions about whether the Yankees can get CC Sabathia comes a seemingly silly one: Should they? Sure, it sounds a little off to wonder whether a pitching-starved team should sign the best pitcher on the market and one of the few bona fide a 

--The Yankees still might have some interest in bringing back one or more of their free agents -- a group that includes LHP Andy Pettitte and OF Bobby Abreu -- but they didn't want to risk having any of them come back for a single expensive year. 

Tough economic times are hurting even the Yankees, who didn't offer Bobby Abreu salary arbitration, Ken Rosenthal says. 

Dunn's sitting pretty 

The New York Yankees declined salary arbitration with all eight of their former players who became free agents, a group that includes pitcher Andy Pettitte and right fielder Bobby Abreu. 

ROCKLAND - For years, lifelong Red Sox fans wanted their team to win the World Series so they could finally go to the grave in peace.