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The article offers information on the life and career of Justin Jirschele, the 27-year-old team manager of the professional baseball team Chicago White Sox. Topics include his previous career wherein he played with the team as a baseman, his managerial decision during the team's games along with his strategies in the field, and his approach with his father Mike Jirschele, former baseball player, in terms of game techniques.

The article presents an interview with former baseball player Alex Rodriguez. Topics he discusses include his dealing with the press as a player, his self-conception and decision making in his playing career and his being suspended. He also discusses his pursuing self-branding after suspension, his photo shoot and his learning to become a public figure from actress Jennifer Lopez.

The article discusses the Statcast database introduced by the firm Major League Baseball Advanced Media. Topics discussed include sportswriter Henry Chadwick who used metrics like hits, at-bats and putouts to measure performance of baseball players, views of Tampa Bay team's center fielder Kevin Kiermaier regarding performance and tracking of balls.

The article offers brief information on Ned Yost, the manager of the Kansas City Royals, baseball team. It mentions that he grew in Livermore Valley of California, as an undersize striver. It mentions that the Chicago Tribune , suggested that he is a bumbling idiot. It offers brief information on his professional baseball playing career.

The article discusses the influx of foreign baseball players in the U.S. from Venezuela, Japan and Cuba. Topics discussed include success of Cuban baseball players Liván Hernández and Rey Ordóñez, status of Cuban baseball players in the baseball matches hosted by the organization Major League Baseball, and several threats like ransoms, death and forgery faced by Cuban baseball players in the U.S.

The article discusses why baseball's most effective pitches screwball disappeared from the game. It refers to baseball player Hector Santiago of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim who demonstrated his screwball grip. It mentions that the screwball's decline is attributed partly to the emergence of other deceptive off-speed pitches including the circle change, the cutter and the split-finger.

The article focuses on professional baseball player Miguel Cabrera and how he became representative of the post-steroid abuse period in U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB). Topics include his receipt of the most valuable player (MVP) award in the American League in 2012 and his distinction as the first player to win the Triple Crown award for batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) in forty-five years.

The author of the article describes his first trip to a National Football League locker room, one used by the New York Giants. He differentiates football locker rooms from professional baseball clubhouses, where strangers feels unwelcome. The locker room and the players are more accessible, even if the lockers seem impersonal and temporary. The author compares interviewing the players to asking girls to dance.

Profiles baseball player Matt Harrington. Impact of the decision to turn down offers from major league baseball teams for as much as $4 million over two years; Designation as the longest holdout in baseball history; Influence of his parents and agent, and his poor background; Reasons that Harrington has regressed each season; Importance of his pitching performance for the Fort Worth Cats in the independent Central baseball League where he earns $800 per month; Reflections on the future.

Looks at the Dominican Republic's fixation on baseball and presents fashion photography of some of the young players. How baseball has changed in the D.R. since the time of Tony Peña; Fact that this tiny Caribbean nation now supplies about one in every four professional ballplayers in the United States; Country's ability to produce so many great baseball players; Bad times the D.R.'s economy is seeing again.

Focuses on baseball pitchers who can throw 100 miles per hour. Mystique of the pitcher who can break the 100-mile-per-hour mark; Observation that these pitchers make up what might be the largest such group to ever play in the major leagues at one time; Advances in pitching technique and training; Topic of fastballs; Value of pitchers; Techniques of pitchers Bobby Jenks, Kerry Wood, Billy Wagner, and Bob Feller.

Profiles U.S. baseball player Barry Bonds. How he is negatively perceived by the media and public; Career highlights; Home run hitter for the Giants; His opinions about the business of baseball and player strikes; Words from godfather Willie Mays; Rumors about steroid use.

Profiles baseball player Mike Piazza of the New York Mets. Comportment of Piazza during various media events, including the return to regular season play following the September 11 terrorist attacks; Biographical details, including his career in baseball; Relations among Mets players; Leadership of the Mets.

Profiles baseball player Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners. His position as a right fielder; His reknown as a baseball player in Japan; Contract with the Mariners; Style of hitting; Interview style.

Profiles Major League Baseball player Darryl Strawberry. Thoughts on the potential he possessed in high school and the minor leagues; Charges against Strawberry of solicitation of prostitution and cocaine possession; How he squandered his fortune and career; His marriage to Lisa Strawberry.

Focuses on baseball player Roger Clemens. His behavior as a pitcher; Personal conditioning and training with his assistant Brian McNamee; His work ethic; Family life; Biographical data; Reputation; Thoughts on pitching; Speculation on retirement.

Profiles baseball player Rick Ankiel, a left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Biographical information; How his successful career was interrupted by a physical and psychic breakdown at the age of 20 during the 2000 major league playoffs; Comparison to other athletes including Max Von McDaniel, pitcher for the Cardinals from 1957-1958; Ankiel's relationship with his incarcerated father.

Discusses the animosity between hitters and pitchers in baseball. Different lifestyles of hitters and pitchers based on the amount of free time available to pitchers; Aggression among pitchers and hitters on the same team; Misunderstandings of pitchers or hitters who become managers; Example of Doug Brocail, pitcher for Major League Baseball's (MLB) Detroit Tigers.

Relates the author's experience participating in the Fifth Annual Equitable Old-Timers All-Star Game. Playing with Hank Aaron, Steve Garvey, and others; Feeling excited but out of place.

Pictures the 1998 New York Yankees. Bernie Williams, Derek Jeter, Orlando Hernandez, David Wells, and others; The position that each man plays; Each players' relation with the team's owner, George Steinbrenner.

Profiles baseball player Mark McGwire. The potential for McGwire to break Roger Maris' 37-year-old record of 61 home runs in one season; Why pitchers cannot pitch to McGwire the same way they would to another slugger; Comments of his St. Louis Cardinals teammate, Willie McGee; Statistics on McGwire.