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Mike Ryan, the backup catcher on the Boston Red Sox’s 1967 “Impossible Dream” team during a 35-year career in professional baseball, has died. He was 78....

The Red Sox said Ryan died in his sleep Tuesday in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire....

A native of Haverhill, Ryan appeared in 636 games with the Red Sox, Phillies and Pirates from 1964-74. He was Boston’s...

The Washington Nationals beat the Astros 7-2 in Game 6 of the World Series, forcing a winner-take-all Game 7 on Wednesday.

With every pitch at the World Series hurtling toward that strike zone box superimposed on TV screens, the call gets louder and louder: Bring on the robot umps!

Edward Norton has been in the spotlight for so long it’s almost hard to remember a time when the three-time Oscar nominee wasn’t amongst the most accomplished working actors we have today. A star making debut in 1997’s “Primal Fear” opposite Richard Gere led to high profile projects including “Fight Club,” “American History X,” “Rounders” and “The People vs. Larry...

John Keenan, the police official who led New York City’s manhunt for the “Son of Sam” killer and eventually took a case-solving confession from David Berkowitz, has died.

Justin Verlander took the mound for the ninth inning, fully aware of the no-hitters he finished — and his near misses, too. Zeroed in, he wouldn’t be denied this time. Verlander pitched his third career no-hitter, punctuating a dominant season by striking out 14 to lead the Houston Astros past the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0 on Sunday.

You’ll finally be able to catch the late J.D. Salinger’s books in digital format. Longtime Salinger publisher Little, Brown and Company said all four of his works, including “The Catcher in the Rye,” will be made available as e-books Tuesday, marking the first time that the entirety of his published work will be available in digital format. His son, Matt...

At Wrigley Field, misters in the back of the bleachers tried to cool the crowd. At Yankee Stadium, only one player took batting practice on the field. In Cleveland, rules were relaxed on what fans could bring into the park. Even for a sport that promotes high heat, Saturday was a scorcher across the majors. The National Weather Service said...

Yankees manager Aaron Boone got fired up at a rookie umpire in a profane rant, and New York awoke from a sleepy start to rally past the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 in a doubleheader opener Thursday.

An extreme heatwave is settling in over nearly two-thirds of the country.

The shrine that has become Tyler Skaggs’ locker in the Los Angeles clubhouse had a new addition Saturday — the ball from the final out of the no-hitter the Angels pitched while wearing their late teammate’s jersey.

“Robot umpires” have arrived. The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls and strikes Wednesday night at its All-Star Game. Plate umpire Brian deBrauwere wore an earpiece connected to an iPhone in his pocket and relayed the call upon receiving it from a TrackMan computer system that uses Doppler radar. He...

The St. Louis Blues are marching into the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in decades. Pretty sweet moment for Vladimir Tarasenko and Co.

Aaron Judge has a “pretty significant strain” of his left oblique, according to Yankees manager Aaron Boone, and it will be several weeks before New York can even estimate when the slugger will return.

Books and booze now go together inside the new Map Room Tea Lounge at the Boston Public Library. The bar and lounge by the Catered Affair opened inside the Copley Square landmark this week. In addition to library’s traditional tea service, it features an a la carte bar menu and craft cocktails with tea-infused spirits.

You can now enjoy a cocktail while checking out a good book in Boston.

Books and booze now go together inside the new Map Room Tea Lounge at the Boston Public Library. The bar and lounge by the Catered Affair opened inside the Copley Square landmark this week. In addition to library’s traditional tea service, it features an a la carte bar menu and craft cocktails with tea-infused spirits.

Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Don Newcombe, considered one of the all-time great Dodgers and one of the storied franchise’s final links to Brooklyn, died at age 92, the team announced Tuesday.

Blake Swihart gets a clean shave after winning the World Series.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora, one of the team’s championship trophies and a bystander were hit by errant beer cans thrown during the team’s victory lap through downtown Boston. Boston police said they also arrested a Massachusetts teen on Boylston Street after they saw him throw an unopened can of beer at one of the duck boats, striking an adult...