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Welcome to Spaulding Baseball Day!
Happy Spalding Baseball Day! What a great day to celebrate baseball.
Today is former MLB player and co-founder of Spaulding Sporting Goods, Albert Spalding's birthday! Albert was born September 2, 1850. He is best known for starting Spalding Sporting Goods with his brother in 1876 and also for playing on (and managing) the Chicago White Stockings.
While Spalding is more currently notable for their basketballs, they actually are known for standardizing the early baseball too. Who knew?!
Here is a great and easy baseball inspired project that will take only minutes. Remember to use a Spalding baseball if you want to get your full celebration on
My three year old starts t-ball in October, this project will be perfect for us!SU News
Adrian Autry Jr Among New Walk-Ons, Jersey Numbers Finalized (TNIAAM; Szuba)
Syracuse Orange fans knows the name Adrian Autry well and they're going to hear it even more often now that Autry's son will walk-on as a freshman.
Autry's son, also named Adrian, played high school basketball just miles from Syracuse University at Jamesville-DeWitt.
Joining Autry are a troika of 5-foot-10 guards; Ky Feldman joins the men's basketball team by way of Agoura Hills, CA with the hope to be a coach one day. Jonathan Radnor is another 5-foot-10 guard, but from Michigan and Shaun Belbey -- who is brothers with ertwhile Syracuse manager Kevin Belbey -- will also join Syracuse as walk-ons.
The four new players will join Christian White, Doyin Akintobi-Adeyeye and Mike Sutton as non-scholarship roster players. The full roster and player numbers can be seen at Cuse.com. The 2015-2016 roster includes 17 players in total. Random note: Only three players on the roster will wear single-digit numbers.
Syracuse will open the season on Nov. 2 in an exhibition contest against cross town opponent, Le Moyne. In the meantime, watch some of Belbey's highlights below.
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Kansas City Royals Dealing with Chickenpox Outbreak in Clubhouse (PS; Axe)
The Kansas City Royals are rolling along comfortably as the 2015 Major League Baseball season enters its final month of the regular season.
The Royals have the second-best record in baseball (80-51 entering Wednesday's games) and own a 12-game lead in the AL Central.
Things are seemingly going as good as can be for the Royals, but a new opponent has popped up that could make their push for another World Series appearance a little bumpier ...chickenpox.
Relief pitcher reliever Kelvin Herrera and outfielder Alex Rios are both out for a couple weeks and the Royals could lose more players as the chickenpox has afflicted the clubhouse.
Herrera has been a solid relief pitcher for KC while Rios has .424 in his last nine games.
"Think there is always a concern because these guys were in for three or four days before they showed signs of it," manager Ned Yost said. "Since that point, (trainer) Nick Kenney has done a real good job of monitoring."
Chickenpox is more common in small children, but can afflict adults and in many cases is much more serious.
"A child might have a couple hundred lesions," said Rafael Harpaz, a medical epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "An adult might have over 500. The likelihood that they'll end up getting pneumonia is much higher. That's pretty rare in children. So there's a number of complications that are more common in adults than in children."
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