| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Wild West
June 2007
Hart & Lalire |
Baseball in the West Our national pastime developed in the eastern United States, but it spread across the Mississippi far sooner than you might think.   |
Sports Central
February 19, 2007
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Profits From Change in Immigration Law MLB has far more in common with American-based multi-national conglomerates than it does with the idea of inclusiveness, where bottom-line profits dictate company policy. |
Reason
June 2002
Matt Welch |
Foul Ball How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a revered Cuban baseball historian... |
Salon.com
August 22, 2001
Allen Barra |
Stop bad-mouthing baseball Sentimental sports columnists moan about its demise, even though the facts don't support their arguments... |
Sports Central
July 21, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: MLB With the 2008 season well underway, let's take a look through the complicated history of the league and pro baseball to present five things you didn't know about Major League Baseball. |
Sports Central
April 15, 2013
Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central
November 14, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Illustrated
October 8, 2001
Phil Taylor |
Not so fast Baseball overlooks one thing when saluting past stars: the pre-1947 exclusion of black players from the major leagues... |
Smithsonian
April 2005
Carolyn Kleiner Butler |
Indelible Images - The Old Ballgames Ernest Withers, who would document the civil rights movement for African-American newspapers and the mainstream press, also photographed the glories of black baseball -- including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson. |
Job Journal
May 23, 2010
Robert Wilson |
Uncomfort Zone: The Secret Ingredient of Success The essential ingredient that puts us in a position to succeed. |
Sports Central
August 13, 2012
Paul Foeller |
Centralized Power Only three players in the National League rank in the top 10 of all three triple crown categories. All of them play in the National League Central. Only one division has three of the top five in wins and in saves -- the National League Central. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Bank of America to Play Ball It becomes the official bank of Major League Baseball and will pitch to other leagues, too. |
Sports Central
May 30, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Why Baseball's Losing its American Identity The decline of participation of the black athlete in baseball is a far more multi-faceted problem than commonly expressed. |
Salon.com
April 20, 2001
King Kaufman |
The stat junkie's perfect high While other big sports sites crash and burn, Baseball-Reference.com has become almost too popular for its own good... |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
David Davis |
Marvin Miller As the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, he challenged the assumptions that players are chattel and that labor unions have no place within sports... |
Sports Central
October 25, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Baseball No Longer Rules October After more than century of dominance in the american sporting marketplace, baseball is no longer king. |
Sports Central
August 3, 2007
Joe Boesch |
The MLB Connection in Israel Was bringing the game of baseball to Israel designed to expand the game -- or create a distract from some of Major League Baseball's problems? |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Ian Rowley |
Japanese Baseball: Old and Slow The owners have grown too cozy with one another to operate efficiently, and the players resemble Japan's coddled workers, accustomed to lifetime employment as comfortable as it is unchallenging. And the fans are fleeing. |
Sports Central
August 16, 2004
David Zirin |
The MLB Strike: 25 Years in the Making Ask any sports fan their low point of the last decade and it would probably involve the 1994 baseball season, the year a player's strike/lockout ended a scintillating campaign and caused the first ever cancellation of the World Series. |
Sports Central
June 3, 2005
Eric Poole |
Baseball of a Different Color While "September Swoon" sometimes gets bogged down in game accounts, it's worthwhile reading for its coverage of race and baseball, particularly in reference to the Philadelphia Phillies' Dick Allen, regarded as baseball's first black superstar malcontent. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Maurer et al. |
Now That's A World Series Major League Baseball's 16-nation tourney will have big stars and political tension -- if everyone plays ball. The tourney represents MLB's push to globalize baseball, open new markets, and widen the pool of talent. |
Fast Company
May 2006
Michael A. Prospero |
9 Innings with Jeff Angus Baseball metaphors run through business speak as easily as Willie Mays ran down fly balls. But too often, writes consultant and baseball columnist Jeff Angus in Management by Baseball, business fails to live up to the American pastime. Here's an interview with the author. |
Salon.com
November 1, 2002
Allen Barra |
Why nobody watched the World Series Blame it on late games and regionalism -- not the great baseball. And has anybody checked the NBA ratings lately? |
Sports Central
March 18, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
Baseball's Unending Controversies Controversies regarding Pete Rose and aluminum bats have bubbled back up to the surface this week. |
Job Journal
May 20, 2007
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Legacy of a Legend What Jackie Robinson accomplished wasn't so much a baseball feat as it was a crucial civil rights breakthrough for all Americans. |
CFO
Tim Reason |
Diamonds in the Rough Minor league baseball is afraid of becoming a victim of its own success... |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2006
Jeff Hwang |
EA's NCAA MVP EA makes something out of nothing with the first-ever college baseball game. The shame is that this will probably be the best baseball game on the market this year, but it's likely that only the most die-hard video-game baseball fans will play it. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2005
Jeff Hwang |
EA's Last MVP Electronic Arts hits a homer with what will likely be its baseball finale. |
Science News
September 8, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: May the Best Team Win Designing a sports schedule so the strongest team prevails: The winner of the Superbowl or World Series is that season's best-performing team. Right? Wrong, according to scientists. |
CIO
October 1, 2001
Jon Surmacz |
A Uniform Decision Major League Baseball is online. How it got there is a lesson in cooperation and conformity. How the Internet encouraged baseball teams to work together. Why MLB.com used a common template for many websites. How MLB.com hopes to cash in... |
Sports Central
September 17, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Baseball Heals All Americans embrace baseball because it symbolizes peace and tranquility. |
Sports Central
March 5, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
The Pennant Race What can be done to make sports and entertainment appeal more to African-Americans in the audience? |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Enjoy Baseball Games Without Going Broke Fortunately, some good values do exist in baseball, and I'll tell you about some of them -- from expensive major league games, to more affordable ones, and even minor league games. |
Sports Central
August 17, 2005
Josh Frank |
Baseball's Numbers Game: One For the Record In the midst of the latest steroid scandals, baseball has found its record books being threatened. But this isn't the first time those records have come under assault by a changing game. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
How To: Get Into Baseball Even though there's a lull in sports right now, there's no need to pout. If you haven't paid much attention to baseball before, here are some tips on how to get into the game. |
AskMen.com
May 14, 2003
Arash Madani |
The Financial Expansion Of The MLB A year after "contraction" was the buzzword in Major League Baseball, the latest trend is not to diminish the game, but to expand it. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2011
Adam Russell |
Is Common Sense Coming to Major League Baseball? The report this week that Major League Baseball is considering realignment is music to my ears, and signals a possibility of the National Pastime returning to common sense. |
Sports Central
July 25, 2004
Diane Grassi |
How Small-Market Teams Can Compete As we have now crossed the threshold of the first-half of the 2004 Major League Baseball season, we will begin to see the races tighten up amongst the contenders for the various leagues' division titles and the wildcards. |
Salon.com
June 15, 2000
Gary Kaufman |
Shoeless Joe, Hall of Famer A pair of South Carolina lawmakers say the "Black Sox" star's lifetime ban from baseball should be lifted. They're right. |
Sports Central
April 16, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Survey Says: Steroids Don't Matter The Associated Press and AOL Sports polled 1,001 adults about their thoughts on professional baseball today. The results are interesting, if not startling. |
Reason
March 2007
Glenn Garvin |
Fidel's Favorite Propagandist How a New York Times reporter's passion for Castro led him astray. Book Review: The Man Who Invented Fidel: Cuba, Castro, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Baseball Beans the Cable Guys Cable's iN Demand group cries foul after striking out with a choice baseball offering. |
Salon.com
August 1, 2001
Allen Barra |
Play ball? You bet The Wall Street Journal says kids aren't interested in the national pastime anymore. The folks who sell baseball gear beg to differ... |
Sports Central
December 9, 2003
Jeff Kallman |
And Now, the End is Near? Will Pete Rose eventually be enshrined in the Hall of Fame? |
Salon.com
June 16, 2000
Allen Barra |
Spread the wealth The solution to baseball's revenue-sharing "problem" is for the teams to share the revenue. |
Sports Central
March 27, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships? |
