If not for a couple of bad knee injuries after high school, Matt Stairs might be finishing a great career now - in the National Hockey League. Baseball has been very good to Stairs, but hockey was ...

Matt Stairs has hit his 21st homer as a pinch-hitter, the most in big league history. Stairs connected on a two-run shot in the eighth inning of the San Diego Padres' 6-5 loss to the Milwaukee ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 -- The average written portrait of Matt Stairs, back before one swing crushed the average life to smithereens, began with a recitation of the everyman shortcomings. Stairs is ...

Today is Matt Stairs’ 57th birthday. Matt, as you know, is a good Canadian boy. He played two seasons with the Blue Jays and started his major league career with the Expos in 1992. Of his two ...

Earlier today, Canadian veteran left-handed slugger Matt Stairs decided to call it a day and announced that he is retiring from Major League baseball. This follows his release by the Washington ...

Matt Stairs, the career leader in pinch-hit home runs, plans to retire.

Last night, Matt Stairs achieved a lifelong dream he once thought was out of reach. Days of nail-biting rain delays had passed. The Rays and the Phillies took to the dampened field and ...

Matt Stairs still hoping to land a job at age 41, has dropped 31 pounds this winter, reports ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick. Stairs has gone from 230 pounds to 199 -- the lightest he’s been in about 15 ...

One day after hitting the most significant home run of his career, Matt Stairs went about his business as though nothing ever happened _ which helps explain why he’s still around at age 40 af… ...

The Padres are hiring Matt Stairs as the team’s new hitting coach, FanRag Sports’ Jon Heyman reports (via Twitter). Earlier today, FanRag’s Robert Murray reported that Stairs was the ...

Matt Stairs was content to be a high school hockey coach back home in Maine this past winter, but he got on Nutri-System, lost 40 pounds and found the spark to come back and make the Padres out of ...

Five years ago Sunday, Matt Stairs hit a huge home run for the Phillies. Check it out -- also check out his immortal quote afterward.