|  | From Tim Hyland, your About Spectator Sports Editor Baseball's regular season is coming to a close--which means, of course, that the playoff race is heating up. The battle for the final playoff spots is under way, with the race for those AL Wild Card spots looking particularly interesting. We'll take a look at the baseball playoff picture and more right here, in this week's About.com Spectator Sports Newsletter. | | Giambi Changes the Narrative of His Career Jason Giambi isn't going to the Hall of Fame. His MVP season in 2000 will have an asterisk in many people's minds after he admittedly took performance-enhancing drugs earlier in his career. But he's hung on in Major League Baseball a lot longer than most people thought, and if this is it for him, he's writing a nice final chapter. | 2013 MLB Playoffs Central A one-stop look at schedules and coverage of the 2013 Major League Baseball playoffs. | A farewell to No. 42: Top 10 players to wear number According to Baseball-Reference.com, 545 players have worn No. 42 in big-league history. After Sunday, aside from signage in every big-league ballpark, it will only be seen on one day a year, April 15. That's the day reserved for Jackie Robinson, when every player wears the number. On Sunday in Houston, it will still just be Mariano Rivera for one final day. | Are the Miami Dolphins for Real? Let's Not Be Hasty Don't get your hopes up too high, Dolphins fans. Not yet. | | | | Related Searches | | | | Featured Articles | | | | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Spectator Sports newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2013 About.com | | | | | Advertisement | |