The Korea Herald

KBO releases spring schedule

Jan 24, 2013

South Korea’s top baseball league announced Thursday that the 2013 preseason will kick off on March 9. The nine teams of the Korea Baseball Organization will each play 12 games during the preseason from March 9-24. For the 2013 season, the KBO will welcome the NC Dinos, the league’s first expansion team since 1991. All games will start at 1 p.m., the KBO said. Rained-out games will be canceled ...
Ex-WBC manager Kim sees pitching as key for Korea

Jan 23, 2013

A time-worn baseball adage says pitching and defense win championships. Kim In-sik, the former South Korean manager of two World Baseball Classic tournaments, said Wednesday that pitching will be crucial for South Korea at the third WBC scheduled for March 2-19. “Comparing this roster to the national teams of the previous two WBCs, I don’t see much difference in offense and fielding,” Kim said....
Ex-WBC manager Kim In-sik sees pitching as key for S. Korea

Jan 23, 2013

A time-worn baseball adage says pitching and defense win championships. Kim In-sik, the former South Korean manager of two World Baseball Classic (WBC) tournaments, said Wednesday that pitching will be crucial for South Korea at the third WBC scheduled for March 2-19. "Comparing this roster to the national teams of the previous two WBCs, I don't see much difference in offense and fielding," Kim...
KT grabs bat, glove

Jan 17, 2013

Telecom giant approved as owner of expansion baseball club
A-Rod has hip surgery

Jan 17, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― Alex Rodriguez had surgery on his left hip Wednesday and is expected to be sidelined until after the All-Star break. The New York Yankees said Dr. Bryan Kelly repaired a torn labrum and impingement and the operation at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York “went as planned and without complication.” The 37-year-old former All-Star third baseman is expected to be released ...
Addition of 10th team to bring changes

Jan 17, 2013

The addition of a new 10th club to the country’s top baseball league in 2015 is expected to bring major changes in the league structure and scheduling, officials said Thursday. According to league officials, the current team representatives would prefer to run a single, 10-team league, rather than have two divisions or conferences with five teams each. In the divided setting, each division will...
KT approved as owner of expansion baseball club

Jan 17, 2013

KT, South Korea‘s largest fixed line operator and No. 2 mobile carrier, was approved as the owner of a new professional baseball team on Thursday. At their general meeting, owners of the existing nine clubs in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) put their stamp of approval on the expansion plan put together by KT and the city of Suwon, the provincial capital of Gyeonggi, located south of Seoul...
Suzuki fired up for 1st full season with Yankees

Jan 16, 2013

TOKYO (AP) ― Ichiro Suzuki is looking forward to starting the baseball season the way he ended last season: as a member of the New York Yankees. The Yankees and Suzuki finalized a $13 million, two-year contract in December that kept the 10-time All-Star in the Bronx after he was obtained in a trade with Seattle last July. “Signing with the Yankees has given me a new sense of determination,” the...
Korea sets sights on WBC title

Jan 15, 2013

Nation confident despite several key injuries
MLB to expand tests for steroids

Jan 11, 2013

PARADISE VALLEY, Arizona (AP) ― Major League Baseball will test for human growth hormone throughout the regular season and increase efforts to detect abnormal levels of testosterone, a decision the NFL used to pressure its players. Baseball players were subject to blood testing for HGH during spring training last year, and Thursday’s agreement between management and the Major League Baseball Pla...
KT close to landing 10th team

Jan 11, 2013

Telecom giant receives more ‘positive grades’ than rival Booyoung
Telecom giant KT takes big step toward baseball ownership

Jan 11, 2013

KT, the nation's largest fixed line operator and No. 2 mobile carrier, has taken a major step toward owning a new professional baseball team after receiving rave reviews for its application for an expansion club, officials said Friday. KT received more "positive grades" from evaluators than its rival, a local business conglomerate Booyoung, as they both try to launch an expansion team in the Kor...
Hall shuts out Bonds, Clemens

Jan 10, 2013

Craig Biggio topped the 37 candidates with 68.2 percent of the 569 ballots, 39 shy of election
Judgment day at Hall of Fame

Jan 9, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― There’s a chance the podium under the chandeliers in the gold-and-ivory-colored Vanderbilt Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel will go unused. With the cloud of steroids shrouding the candidacies of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and others, baseball writers may fail for the only the second time in more than four decades to elect anyone to the Hall of Fame, rendering a news conference ...
KBO posts record revenue in 2012

Jan 9, 2013

Aided by a record number of fans, South Korea’s top professional baseball league in 2012 posted its largest-ever revenue, a league report showed Wednesday. The Korea Baseball Organization Properties, the marketing wing of the Korea Baseball Organization, said the league earned 35 billion won ($32.9 million) in baseball-related businesses in 2012, surpassing the previous record of 34 billion won ...