MLB Team Report - Houston Astros - INSIDE PITCH The Astros will be without their smallest -- and arguably best -- player for a few days. Second baseman Jose Altuve was placed on the bereavement list Tuesday night before a 6-2 loss at Detroit. He is expected to miss two games then return to the team Saturday night at Pittsburgh for the middle game of a three-game series. Houston finishes its three-game series at Detroit on Wednesday then is off Thursday before playing the Pirates on Friday night.

MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Avisail Garcia is scheduled to make his first start of 2013 in center field for Detroit. Garcia, impressive in a short September-October stint with the Tigers last season, was brought up Tuesday after Detroit placed Austin Jackson on the disabled list with a sore left hamstring. He pinch-hit Tuesday night and remained in Detroit's 6-2 victory over Houston, going 0-for-2.

By Joe McDonald JIM THORPE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The tiny hamlet of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, could lose its namesake, an American sports hero whose interment put the town on the map. A family squabble has turned into a federal court battle over the remains of the legendary Native American athlete and Olympic medalist, who died in 1953 and whose life was depicted in "All American," a 1951 movie starring Burt Lancaster.

Hollywood actor Jon Hamm, best known as the dapper Don Draper in hit US TV series "Mad Men", has begun shooting his new film in the home of Bollywood, according to those working on the movie. Hamm is in Mumbai for the making of Disney's "Million Dollar Arm", based on a true story, in which he stars as sports agent J. B. Bernstein who discovers two Indian teenagers and signs them up to play baseball.