The Negro Leagues will be featured on upcoming 44-cent stamps as part of the postal service's 2010 postage program, joining the likes of Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa, Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin and Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn.
New Postage Stamps Will Salute the Negro Leagues....
The Associated Press has learned the New York Mets and free agent slugger Jason Bay have reached a preliminary deal. The 31-year-old outfielder is expected to sign a four-year pact worth about $65 million.
The Philadelphia Phillies got ace Roy Halladay from Toronto and traded Cliff Lee to Seattle on Wednesday, completing a complicated, four-team deal that featured a pair of Cy Young winners.
Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and John Lackey are some of the big name players who are involved in deals that are in the works in Major League Baseball.
Andy Pettitte stays with the Yankees while Kevin Milwood and several others go elsewhere during Wednesday's winter meetings in Indianapolis.
The Yankees have reached tentative agreement Tuesday on a three-team, seven-player deal that would send Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson to New York. The Diamondbacks would get Tigers hurler Edwin Jackson, and Detroit would land four players.
