Baseball

8/13/2026 |  Field of Dreams nostalgia lives on through the Ghost Players and their passion for Iowa and baseball (Associated Press (AP)) Nearly four decades after “ Field of Dreams ” brought a group of dead baseball players to life with a homemade diamond on an Iowa farm, Keith Rahe and his traveling troupers are still dedicated to keeping the cornfield mystique alive.

8/13/2026 |  Could Mark Walter sell the Dodgers next? Why Shohei Ohtani makes a potential deal more complicated than Lakers (CBS Sports) The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold for the second time in a year. Mark Walter, who also owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, has agreed to sell the Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for $12.5 billion, barely a year after he bought the iconic NBA franchise for $10 billion.

8/13/2026 |  How MLB can achieve its self-proclaimed fight for parity without a salary cap (and a devastating labor war) (CBS Sports) The deeper the 2026 Major League Baseball season gets and the longer negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement fail to yield much shared ground, the more likely a lockout and compromised 2027 season are. 

8/13/2026 |  LA Dodgers teams up with LG on stadium tech and fan experience (Stadia Magazine) LG Electronics USA has been named a Proud Partner of the defending World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers under a new multi-million-dollar, three-year marketing and technology partnership that combines industry-leading display innovations with one of Major League Baseball’s most iconic franchises.

8/13/2026 |  Kansas City Royals’ $3bn ballpark district clears first regulatory test (Stadia Magazine) The Kansas City Plan Commission has voted unanimously to rezone the Crown Center area, the first formal step towards an 85-acre ballpark district for the Kansas City Royals, according to KCUR.
The Royals and Hallmark Cards, which owns the Crown Center site, will now move forward with redevelopment plans on that basis. Rezoning is the process by which a local authority changes the designated legal use of a piece of land, determining what can and cannot be built there — in this case, planning officials described it as merely the opening step in a much longer redevelopment process.