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Indians defeat the Blue Jays 3-0 to take ALCS four games to one.

Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief pitcher but gained greater fame and consequence in the game by writing about it, died on June 29 in Park Ridge, Ill. He was 84. The cause was an infection he developed while recovering from a stroke, his son, Timothy, said. In 1959, Brosnan, who played nine years in the major leagues, kept a diary of his experience as a pitcher, first with the St. Louis Cardinals and later, after a trade, with the Cincinnati Reds. Published the next year as "The Long Season," it was a new kind of...

Back from managing, Mordecai ready to help Marlins By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK In his first year as a manager, Mike Mordecai took a little infield practice and a little batting practice, just for fun, just to show the kids in the New York-Penn League that he could still do it at age 37. "I told my players I still felt like a player, just off the field," Mordecai said. "I told them, `I'm one of you.' I did it just in case. You never know." Now, after spending the season at Class A Jamestown, Mordecai knows....