On March 9, 2005, on the same day he was supposed to start a B-game in Jupiter, Fla., Rick Ankiel instead walked into manager Tony La Russa's office and abruptly retired. What happened next became ...

Former major leaguer Rick Ankiel said Monday that he drank vodka before his first two starts of the 2001 season for the St. Louis Cardinals, which came after his meltdown in the 2000 playoffs when he ...

In 2000, there was no rookie more anticipated than Rick Ankiel. After a disastrous postseason derailed his pitching career, he began a seven-year odyssey to return to baseball on the other side of the ...

The latter-day Roy Hobbs clenched his lips Friday afternoon, saying as little as possible about human growth hormone and a Florida pharmacy of ill repute. Yet Rick Ankiel still managed to confirm the ...

To borrow a quote from the great Yogi Berra: "Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical." America's pastime has always been a thinking man's game, but with the influx of modern technology and ...

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