When the American and National League face off in Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in New York, there will be fewer people watching than there were the last time Yankee Stadium was the host in 1977.

BEIJING - Baseball and softball got a chance to make their pitch to be reinstated as Olympic sports on Wednesday.

PHILADELPHIA - Temple senior Stan Orzechowski has been named the Philadelphia Big 5 Baseball Player of the Week, in voting conducted by the schools' head coaches and sports information offices. Orzechowski batted .526 (10-for-19) with five RBI in four ga

NEW YORK - Baseball will start testing bats following a meeting Tuesday of a player-management safety committee but made no decision on the contentious issue of banning maple models.

The Wolverines keyed a day on which top-ranked Miami (Fla.) edged No. 2 Florida State 11-10, No. 3 Arizona State held off two-time defending champion Oregon State 15-12 and Oklahoma pounded No. 10 Missouri 22-4. In a score that looked as if it could have