By Mike DiGiovanna Los Angeles Times (MCT) Albert Pujols can lead the Angels to a few World Series championships, win several most-valuable-player awards, set the all-time home run record and pass 3,000 hits, and he would not pay for himself. It seems unlikely that any player, no matter how dominant and marketable, can generate close [...]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The famous line from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was written about London and Paris, but the same could be said for the state of Southern California baseball. It is the best of times for the Angels. It is the worst [...]

There is nothing more American than baseball. It is our country’s favorite pastime and encompasses everything our country stands for. For example, the idea of the American dream can be perfectly exemplified with the famous Jackie Robinson debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 who broke the color barrier in the sport and was the [...]

Former Cal State Fullerton baseball star Tim Wallach will be enshrined in the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas July 3. Wallach, who played first base in the 1978-79 seasons, helped lead the Titans to their first Division I national championship in his senior year. In his junior year with the Titans, [...]

By Brian Whitehead
Daily Titan Staff Writer

By Bill Plunkett (MCT) Scheduled to start for the Boston Red Sox tonight, John Lackey downplayed the awkwardness of facing his former team for the first time and said “it’s going to be fun.” But he also aimed a high, hard one at the organization that gave him his start in professional baseball, handed him [...]

By Brian Whitehead
Daily Titan Sports Columnist

By Jim Baumbach Newsday (MCT) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Can you blame the Angels if they start throwing their hands up and saying, “We give up!” whenever Alex Rodriguez comes to the plate? Right now the Yankees third baseman is about as close to unstoppable as a baseball player can get. Tuesday night in Game 4 [...]