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Baseball writer Hal McCoy could use a ride to Reds games this season

Mark Townsend, yahoo.com

For 41 years, Hal McCoy has been a fixture at Cincinnati Reds games while covering the team for the Dayton Daily News (1972-2009) and his baseball blog The Real McCoy (2009-present). He'd like to keep it that way for a 42nd season, but it sounds like th…

David Brown, yahoo.com

Slugger Albert Pujols has taken a lot of grief from some St. Louis Cardinals fans for signing with the Los Angeles Angels. And he'll continue to take it. But that hasn't colored his memories of Stan Musial, whom Pujols always embraced as the living symb…

Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com

With news of Stan Musial's death still raw on Sunday, there was a noticeable shift in tone at the Cardinals' Winter Warm-Up. An event designed to spur excitement about the upcoming season turned largely into a gathering of folks paying tribute to one of…

Carrie Muskat, MLB.com

Reaction to the Cubs' five-year plan to restore Wrigley Field has been positive -- once fans are assured the field itself will not change, the ivy will still be on the outfield walls, and the renovation does not call for a third deck to be added.

Mark Sheldon, MLB.com

Even with three different general-manager regimes, the Reds have made it almost an entire decade without going to an arbitration hearing against a player. But this could be the year that bucks the trend.