J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. Billy Smith, a pitcher for the Houston Astros team that won a second-half title in the strike-shortened 1981 season, died April 5.