Julia Ruth Stevens, the last-surviving daughter of American baseball legend Babe Ruth, died Saturday morning in a Henderson assisted care facility after a short illness, her family announced on Facebook. She was 102.
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A Henderson man will throw the first pitch on Memorial Day at the Las Vegas 51s game. The ceremonial pitch will honor the memory of his son, a Marine who was killed in Iraq in 2005.
Summer didn’t really end on Monday, but residents of the Las Vegas Valley embraced the traditional last hurrah of the season.
Imagine the grinding from the grandstands longtime local baseball umpire Fred Atiyeh took in three decades behind the plate. Forget the fact he was a top-notch game caller and an even better man. Precision and ethics mean nothing to baseball fans, who know it’s their God-given right, indeed their duty, to razz the umpire at every opportunity.
According to the folks at WalletHub.com, St. Louis is the country’s No. baseball town. Where is Las Vegas? That’s hard to say. For some reason, the survey outfit listed “Paradise, NV” at No. 210.
A former professional baseball player accidentally shot himself in the hand while cleaning his gun Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Chad Gaudin has been charged with lewdness after police say he touched the breast of a woman on a gurney at a Las Vegas hospital earlier this year.