While he has no plans to step away just yet, Hernandez is looking to scale back his workload — taking a page from the late, great Ralph Kiner’s ... really look at it, baseball has been my ...

Broadcasts of baseball games ... Bob Murphy, and Ralph Kiner. Nelson and Murphy were professional broadcasters. Kiner was not. KIner had been a professional player. Nelson and Murphy…never.

The Athletics are embarking on a new era of baseball over the next few seasons, and they are enlisting Lawrence Butler as one of the franchise’s faces of that journey by locking up the right fielder ...