It's one of the most exciting plays in baseball and one of the most dangerous, the collision between a waiting catcher and a base runner charging for home plate. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: And coming to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ray Fosse watched the crushing blow to Giants star Buster Posey and wondered why after all these years there are still few rules to protect catchers at the plate. If there's anybody ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Pete Rose sounded bowled over. Charlie Hustle, who famously flattened Ray Fosse to score the winning run in the 1970 All-Star game, couldn’t believe Major League Baseball ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR Major League Baseball plans to eliminate home plate collisions, among other rules ...

Major League Baseball intends to eliminate its most exciting — and most dangerous — play next season, by placing a permanent ban on the home plate collision. At the offseason Winter Meetings this week ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Home-plate collisions, long the staple of highlight reels, are soon to become a thing of the past in the major leagues. Major League Baseball’s playing-rules committee recommended ...

HOME plate collisions have made for many a great baseball movie scene, but the MLB is in the process of banning them. New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson, chairman of the rules committee, ...

Major League Baseball’s rules committee has voted to ban home plate collisions, MLB Rules Committee Chairman and New York Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson announced Wednesday. Alderson said the ...

CHICAGO –– Ian Happ running through Colson Montgomery may have resembled a football play more than a baseball play to some, given the way physical collisions have largely been removed from MLB. But in ...

It's one of baseball's "most traditional and most violent plays," as NPR's Tom Goldman says. Starting as soon as next season, though, Major League Baseball will move to ban intentional collisions at ...

Major League Baseball intends to outlaw home-plate collisions for the 2014 season as long as a new rule currently being drafted is approved by the Players Association. "I think ultimately what we want ...