Now that Derek Jeter has left baseball, the rest of the sport can focus on the real business of October, the play-offs and the suddenly dramatic road to the World Series.

The way the Boston Red Sox clinched the World Series this past week is almost too corny to be true.

THERE’S a lot to dislike about the state of Texas but its baseball teams are hard to hate.

YANKEE STADIUM, which closed last Saturday night, opened for business on April 18, 1923 with a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

WORLD Series champions Boston and the Houston Astros clinched the final two Major League Baseball playoff berths on the last day of the regular season on Sunday.