MLB Wives and Girlfriends (WAGS)
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- Former Cubs first baseman Mark Grace married Tanya Avila on January 5, 2002. The marriage was short lives, as the couple was divorced in January, 2006.
Mark and Tanya Grace had two sons together; Jackson Gene born in 2000, and Preston Torre born in October, 2003 during the first week of Mark's retirement from baseball.
This was Mark's second marriage, after his first marriage to Michelle Grace ended in divorce in 1993 (after being married in 1988). After their divorce, Michelle wound up marrying Ray Liotta.
Tanya Grace will be appearing on the new VH1 show, Baseball Wives beginning on November 30th. This is the latest spinoff in the series of reality shows featuring the wives, girlfriends and exes of professional athletes.
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Since we couldn't find any photos of Darlene Sveum, we figured you'd at least like to be entertained by the two most hilarious photos of Dale Sveum that we could find. Have a photo of her? Send it on over to us.
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- UPDATE: 11-17-2011: So it looks like no one wants to be a part of the Boston Red Sox organization at this point. We didn't even want Dale Sveum to be manager but even he turned down the gig to become manager of the Chicago Cubs. It looks like the Sox are now stuck with Bobby Valentine...
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- Despite Boston being an incredibly media heavy town and her husband being enemy #1 for a spell (thanks to his atrocious third base coaching), Dale Sveum's wife Darlene Sveum is an elusive woman who remains almost entirely unknown. With Dale Sveum in the running, any many say the front runner for, the Boston Red Sox manager position vacated by Tito Francona, the PlayerWives.com staff has been looking high and low for information about Mrs. Sveum.
We clearly don't have much to show for it, but we'll tell you what we know. We know that Dale and Darlene Sveum live in Scottsdale, AZ with their two children Brittane and Rustin. We know that Dale is originally from Richmond, CA and graduated from Pinole Valley High School, where he played baseball in addition to football and basketball. According to a reader, Darlene also attended Pinole Valley High School. Thanks to a newsletter that we found, we can definitively tell you that Darlene used to organize the annual Halloween party in their community, but that they are now looking for a replacement since Darlene's kids are all grown up. Entertaining, huh? That's all we know for sure.
What else did our research turn up? Darlene Sveum donated money to a sorority at ASU. That could mean that she went to ASU (in fact, if that is true then she may have met Dale there, as he turned down a scholarship there to turn pro) or it could mean that her daughter goes there. Or it could mean absolutely nothing. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel huh?
There's just nothing out there about her right now. That said, if Dale Sveum is named as Red Sox manager, we're guessing that will change very quickly.
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- Hunter Pence has good taste. After dating some bikini model named Terrie B and then an NFL cheerleader, now the rumor is that Hunter Pence's girlfriend is Shannon James. Yes, Shannon James the Playmate. May 2007 to be exact. So to be clear, Hunter Pence upgraded from a bikini model girlfriend to a cheerleader girlfriend to a Playmate girlfriend. Very impressive.
Hunter can thank the trade to Philly for this upgrade actually. He met Shannon James at the Hamels Foundation Diamond and Denim event on August 11th, where she was doing a promotional appearance. Rumors swirled after the event that a hot blonde had given her number to Pence, and it looks like he followed through on that. Good for him. It would've been a real shame if he had just rested on his laurels and stayed content with a mere bikini model. The relationship, while perhaps not officially confirmed as a relationship, was alluded to by a pair of recent Tweets by James.
In addition to appearing in Playboy, Shannon James has also appeared in Maxim UK, Guitar World, Reality Magazine, Steppin Out' Magazine as well as Hooters magazines and calendars.
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- UPDATE: 11-15-201: After being a big part of the World Series runner-up Texas Rangers, Mike Maddux is being offered some high-profile manager positions all around the league. Despite the attention, Maddux is being pretty selective and doesn't seem all that interested. For instance, before even being interviewed, Maddux removed his name from consideration for the Boston Red Sox vacant manager position. You might think that he did this because the Red Sox are a mess - but you'd be wrong. He took his name out of the running based on what he calls a "family decision". Mike Maddux' wife Lise Maddux and their two daughters are, in his words, "together in the same state for the first time in three years and words cannot describe my happiness". Mike feels that the distance between the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and Boston is just too much. Chicago, though, is apparently close enough - as he has interviewed with the Cubs and is considered a finalist at this point.
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- Mike Maddux and his wife, Lise Maddux, have two daughters attending college near Dallas-Ft. Worth. Makayla Maddux attends at Texas Christian while her sister Lexie Maddux attends Southern Methodist.
Lise Maddux grew up near Portland, Oregon, attending Laurelwood Academy and Portland State University. Mike Maddux was born in Ohio and attended college in Texas - no word on when and where the two met. Lise is the secretary for the Mike Maddux Foundation, based out of Las Vegas, NV. Maddux founded the Maddux Foundation in October 2000 to help under-privileged children receive dental and vision care. “The Maddux Foundation works to support the underserved youth of Southern Nevada,” Maddux said. “We recognize and are committed to Southern Nevada’s most valuable resource, our children.”
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- Fast Facts: On Friday, November 11th, Mike Matheny was notified that he was being hired as the manager of the World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals, replacing Tony LaRussa, with one caveat. He could tell no one until his introductory press conference the following Monday.
Matheny's already broken one rule.
With his wife sitting next to him when the news came in, he had no choice but to text the mother of his five children(daughter Katie, and sons, Tate, Luke, Jacob and Blaise) with the news. Though on second thought, maybe texting someone didn't violate the rule handed down from GM John Mozeliak.
Mike and Kristin were varsity athletes at the University of Michigan, with Kristin playing field hockey. The couple was married in 1993.
- Quote: Matheny's playing career ended in 2006 following post concussion related issues. Matheny, who was then with the Giants, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about his wife's guiding hand through his recovery.
"My wife is very concerned. She knows what I will play through more than anybody else. She knows the things I've been blessed enough to play through that I don't know if other people would play through or not. I think she's afraid I'm going to do that with this. She's being very smart to let me know we have to take this slow, and she's right, but every day it's harder for me because there have been things worse than this to play through."
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- UPDATE: 11/12/11: Despite the fact that initial reports that the woman Ramos is embracing in the pictures to the right was his girlfriend, we are now aware that this is not accurate. Rafael Rojas (a Rockies beat writer, who also works for a Venzuelan newspaper that covers the Venezuelan baseball league), just passed along this quote from Ramos:Wilson Ramos: "Now it's time for me to enjoy my family, my baseball and the fact I'm single, no girlfriend"
- Fast Facts: Washington Nationals catcher, Wilson Ramos has been found and rescued by police commandos after an airstrike in his native Venezuela.
Ramos spoke to a group of reporters upon his return, and thanked his rescuers "I am very happy for the rescue operation they carried out. Very thankful to the government and the national army. I didn't expect them. Where they were holding me captive was a very remote place, basically a jungle, and see, I was praying to God to bring me home safely to my family and look at these guys, they risked their lives to save mine and I am very thankful."
Ramos reports being physically unharmed, and told Nationals GM Mike Rizzo that he would resume baseball activity once he's recovered from the significant "psychological harm," endured.
Ramos returned home to a jubilant celebration with friends, family and his girlfriend (whose name we do not know yet). Ramos thought of his family during his ordeal, saying: "They put me in a room with a bed. I was lying there. It was hard for me to think about, if I was going to get out alive first of all ... about how my family, my mother were."
Venezuelan officials report that three of his alleged captors have been taken into custody. Various statements and reports indicated that there were up to five gunmen involved with the original abduction of Ramos which took place at the home of a relative.
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- After a world series title with the St. Louis Cardinals (and turning in an arguably MVP performance in the process), the excitement doesn't end there for Allen Craig. On November 12, 2011, just two weeks after the end of the World Series, Allen Craig will marry his long-time girlfriend Marie LaMarca. Allen Craig met Marie LaMarca while they both attended Chaparral High School in Temecula, CA around 2002 when Allen was a senior. The couple is registered at Macy's and, despite our numerous past posts regarding athletes and wedding registries, we will avoid the subject this time around.
Allen Craig and his wife-to-be Marie LaMarca have had a tortoise for five years now. No big deal right? Well, it wasn't - until a fake Twitter account was started for Torty the Tortoise and the team began to adopt Torty was an informal mascot of sorts. Based on the content of the Tweets, the safe bet is that someone else on the team created and runs the account, though no one is saying for certain. Though Allen Craig hasn't exactly embraced the whole situation, we get the feeling that he isn't arguing with the outcome. Craig said of the situation "It kind of just got out and now it's a huge deal. But it's fun and whatever it takes to keep the team close is fine with me". No word on whether the Red Sox will attempt to embrace one of their pets, perhaps a gerbil, as an informal mascot in an attempt to win another World Series get back to the playoffs.
