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On Wednesday Major League Baseball announced that Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas were all elected to baseball's Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Bud Selig, who has overseen Major League Baseball since 1992, announced on Thursday that he will step down as commissioner following the 2014 season.

The Twins will have 2 representatives at the Major League Baseball All Star game in New York tonight. Joe Mauer will start at catcher and reliever pitcher Glen Perkins could come out of the bullpen for the American League.

It's a rather light schedule on the upcoming sports calendar, with Major League Baseball dominating the offerings. Here's what to watch this weekend:

The performance-enhancement drug problem that has dogged baseball for the last few years could very well rear its ugly head yet again.

Every once in a while, baseball fans are treated to a phenomenon as rare as it is riveting—the bench-clearing fight.

The San Francisco Giants took a 2 games to none series lead with a 2-0 win over Detroit in Game 2 of the World Series Thursday night. Brandon Crawford grounded into a double play to score the first round in the 7th inning and Hunter Pence drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the 8th inning for the Giants. Madison Bumgarner threw 7 shutout innings with 2 hits allowed to get the win. Doug Fister allowed 1 earned run in 6 innings to take the loss.

The Twins defeated Detroit 9-3 Monday night to end their 4-game losing streak.  Darin Mastroianni went 3-5 with a homerun and 3 RBIs, Ryan Doumit was 3-4 with 2 runs scored including a 3-run homerun and both Joe Mauer and Jamey Carroll added 3 hits apiece...

The non-waiver trade deadline in Major League Baseball is July 31 and the Twins have 2 key players that are on the market for trade, starting pitcher Francisco Liriano and centerfielder Denard Span.  Liriano went from having little no value in May to having tremendous value now ...

The Twins lost 2-1 Wednesday night to Baltimore.  Tommy Hunter threw 7 1/3 innings with 6 hits and 1 earned run allowed to get the win.  Francisco Liriano threw 6 innings with 4 hits and 2 earned runs allowed to take the loss.  Liriano gave up a 2-run homerun to Adam Jones in the first inning to Baltimore ...

The Twins pounded the Baltimore Orioles 19-7 Monday night.  Minnesota had 20 hits in the game.  Denard Span led the Twins going 3-5 with 2 runs scored and 5 RBIs, Justin Morneau had 4 hits and 3 RBIs, Ben Revere had 4 hits with 3 RBIs and Joe Mauer hit a solo homerun, his 6th...

San Francisco Giants’ teammates Melky Cabrera and Pablo Sandoval delivered big hits early, as the National League shutout the American League 8-0 in the 2012 MLB All-Star game Tuesday night in Kansas City.