PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Alex Cobb said Major League Baseball's development of a protective cap for pitchers 'seems like a gimmick to just to cover their end,' and expressed ...

In the nearly 17 months since then-Oakland Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy was struck in the head by a line drive and suffered life-threatening brain injuries, Major League Baseball says it has ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Big league pitchers are always at risk, but they might feel safer on the mound this season. Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to ...

A protective cap worn by Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson sold for a record amount during an October auction. The cap, which was made during Robinson’s rookie season in 1947, sold for $590,994, ...

NEW YORK – Big league pitchers might feel safer on the mound this season. Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to reduce the damage from line drives to head that ...

New York Mets left-hander Alex Torres volunteered to wear another strange-looking cap Saturday night, all in the name of making Major League Baseball a safer game to play. Despite the risk of inviting ...

“So much more than a baseball cap, this rates as one of the most profound pieces of sports history that has ever been offered for public sale,” declares Lelands, a top, New York auction house. “One of ...

Big league pitchers might feel safer on the mound this season.Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to reduce the damage from line drives to head that have brought ...

This product image released by Vizion Group on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 20134, shows the isoBLOX protective caps, for professional baseball players, left and right, and a youth level protective skull cap, ...

In the wake of the life-threatening skull fracture suffered by Brandon McCarthy last season, MLB has been working to develop and test protective headgear for pitchers. However, as William Weinbaum of ...

Those scary hits to the head that pitchers sometimes take on line drives might not be quite as scary this year. A new protective cap designed to reduce the effects of such blows has been approved by ...