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Financial terms were not disclosed by the team, but USA Today
reported the deal is worth more than $50 million -- a
substantial upgrade from the five-year, $18.5 million pact that
Epstein signed on Oct. 25, 2011.
Under Epstein's watch, the Cubs have won 97 or more games in
consecutive seasons for the first time in more than 100 years
and are postseason favorites in 2016 to end their pronounced
World Series drought.
Chicago, which has 101 victories with five games remaining,
became the third team in major league history to win at least
100 games within four years of a 100-loss season (61-101 in
2012).
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Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader, has
petitioned the National Baseball Hall of Fame officials to
include him on future ballots.
Rose received a lifetime ban from then-commissioner Bart
Giamatti for betting on baseball. Rose accepted terms of the
agreement on Aug. 24, 1989. Giamatti died eight days later.
The 75-year-old Rose's seven-page letter, obtained by Yahoo
Sports, asked Hall president Jeff Idelson for his inclusion on
ballots and for the officials to reconsider the bylaw that
blocks his candidacy for enshrinement.
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Former quarterback Tim Tebow hit a home run on the first pitch
of his first organized game since his junior year of high school
in his first at-bat with the New York Mets' instructional league
team.
Tebow, wearing his familiar No. 15 jersey, hit a 91-mph fastball
over the left-center field wall for a homer on Wednesday and was
greeted at home plate by teammates in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The 29-year-old Tebow, a 255-pound outfielder, is likely the
oldest player playing in instructional league games in Florida.
He signed a $100,000 minor league contract with the Mets on
Sept. 8 after holding a workout in Los Angeles on Aug. 30 with
46 scouts in attendance. (Editing by Andrew Both)
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