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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.
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Sports Central April 24, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Desire For Cuban Players Overshadowed One can only hope that one day MLB will not solely rely upon the almighty dollar to feel right about its decisions, but also will do right, on behalf of not only American baseball community, but for the Latin American community, rather than just bleeding its talent dry.
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.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2007 Seth Jayson	If Hugo Wants Cement ... Cemex could survive a grab from Venezuela's Chavez. But, as distasteful as it is, shareholders will remain better served if the company can play ball with Hugo.
Sports Central December 19, 2005 Chris Cornell	Major League Baseball Goes Global Baseball is following in the footsteps of other sports, like basketball and hockey, by seeking out talent throughout the world.
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 July 5, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	National Pastime's Future Remains on Shakey Ground As we celebrate America's birthday this week, it is perhaps a good time to revisit how America's "national pastime" is doing.
Sports Central April 11, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Opening Daze The 2005 Major League Baseball season carries over many of the same story lines from the 2004 season.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Mark Hyman	The Racial Gap In The Grandstands Major League Baseball is aggressively courting Latinos as African Americans drift away.
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.
Sports Central August 2, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	Joe Torre, the Next MLB Commissioner? Joe Torre, former Major League Baseball manager of no less than five MLB teams, as well as a former 17-year MLB player, has been making his way through the maze of MLB executive life in 2011.
Sports Central December 2, 2008 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Invests in First Indian-Born Players The Pirates have the sole distinction of signing two non-drafted free agents from India.
Sports Central October 21, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Haves and Have-Nots Not StubHub's Fault Now that the 2012 Major League Baseball postseason is in full swing, what better time than now to revisit the access fans have to attend MLB games?
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 May 10, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	Does Clemens' Contract Disrespect Baseball? There are a number of questions beneath the veneer that are far bigger than one Roger Clemens.
Sports Central January 26, 2012 Kevin Beane	For Carmona, a Faustian Bargain As an Indians fan, few players have been more frustrating to me over the years than Fausto Carmona, the man we now know is actually Roberto Hernandez Heredia, and three years older than he claimed.
AskMen.com Troy St. Louis	The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they?
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Emma Haak	Baseball By The Billions (Of Dollars) How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer -- and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what's driving Baseball Inc.
Sports Central November 1, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	2004 MLB Season in Retrospect While articles, book deals and high-paying endorsements will be doled out to the Boston Red Sox and their individual players well into the 2005 season, the ending to the 2004 Major League Baseball season left a lot of us perplexed and yearning for a more balanced and tidier ending.
Sports Central August 31, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head.
Reason November 2007 Michael C. Moynihan	The Caudillo in His Labyrinth Hugo Chavez, by Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka, is dispiriting reading, but there may still be hope for Venezuela.
Sports Central March 27, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	Challenges Face Native American Prospects Baseball is arguably the sport most intertwined with its history and legacy along with its impact on society. Its past demands that it be revisited, as this article explores two notable and historically unique minor league prospects.
Sports Central September 15, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Will MLB's Latest Tech Hurt the Game? As the end of the 2009 Major League Baseball season approaches, here's a critical look at the technological advances instituted in 2009 and intended for the game's future progress.
Sports Central August 16, 2011 Paul Foeller	From Spring Training to the Fall Classic It may not be the way the baseball purists want to see it, and it may put a dent in yearly revenue, but a shortened MLB regular season will eventually happen.
Sports Central October 25, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Files Lawsuit on Manner of Exposed Finances Major League Baseball should be enjoying the fruits of an above-average 2011 postseason performance, which will be crucial to the impending expiration of its Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association on December 31, 2011.
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.
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.
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind.
Sports Central August 20, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Suffers No Lack of Hypocrisy Major League Baseball fans over the past several years have not only been witness to performances taking place on MLB baseball diamonds across America, but have also been privy to after-the-fact cover-ups, collusion, denials, and authoritarian control of their National Pastime.
Sports Central November 3, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Umpire Woes Rest With MLB Operations Without a uniform standard overseen by Major League Baseball, simply implanting new technology will not solve the systemic problem, demonstrated by numerous 2009 postseason bad calls from umpires.
Sports Central December 20, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	Nation's Capitol, MLB Go Full Circle At one time, Major League Baseball was our celebrated pastime in the spring, summer, and early fall. Over the past couple of seasons, however, we have been put on a perpetual baseball calendar of an ongoing sideshow.
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?
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?
Sports Central December 15, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children.
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?
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Geri Smith	Is Venezuela's Chavez Killing The Golden Goose? Venenzuelan President Hugo Chavez is using oil industry profits to enhance social programs. He is also using oil in his bid to turn Venezuela into a counterweight to U.S. influence in Latin America, causing a strain in relations.
Sports Central May 28, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Auto Industry's Demise Impacts Baseball If MLB remains as shortsighted as it has been the past several years, not only will the younger generation of potential players and fans erode, but they will permanently vanish.
AskMen.com Lewis Helfand	Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports Everything from ticket sales to stadium parking takes a significant hit when games are canceled. The strikes and lockouts listed below show just how much professional athletes, teams, and even leagues stand to lose when faced with a work stoppage.
Sports Central March 19, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Grainy Issue Remains For MLB Bat Makers MLB would be doing itself a service if it far more respected those who brought it to the dance -- the fans and the small businesses that prop it up.
PC Magazine March 3, 2009 Daniel S. Evans	MLB 09: The Show Whatever level of baseball realism you want and whether you want to work your way up, just play the Big One, manage -- you name it, this PS3, PSP, and PS2 game lets you do it.
Sports Central August 30, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Presumes Labor Peace in Approaching Offseason As we enter the final weeks of the 2011 Major League Baseball season, unlike other impending offseasons in recent years, this will be of the collective bargaining kind.
Sports Central September 27, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	Bud Selig's Final Task of the Season The final week of the 2004 Major League Baseball regular season is upon us and league titles and wildcards are still up for grabs. But the real question lingers -- where will the Expos call home next season?
Sports Illustrated April 23, 2003 Albert Chen	Inside Baseball: Global Warming Momentum builds for a World Cup that would determine international bragging rights among major leaguers.
Sports Central April 25, 2006 Diane M. Grassi	DC Politics Intertwine With MLB Ownership The Nationals are now going to be used by MLB as the poster child for recruiting the black community back to baseball. However, the way it is being done will probably fall on deaf ears to the very ones MLB is supposedly trying to reach.
Sports Central September 2, 2010 Corrie Trouw	The Bottom Line of Bottoming Out The willingest spenders like the Yankees and Red Sox receive mixed messages from their sports: Try to win as much as you can, but you better not use all of your resources to do it.
InternetNews February 15, 2005 Tim Gray	MLB Acquires Tickets.com Major League Baseball agrees to purchase the ticket seller to make the ticket-buying process easier for fans.
Sports Central June 11, 2010 Jeffrey Boswell	Sports Q&A: MLB's "Perfect" Conspiracy Major League Baseball umpire Jim Joyce's blown call on a play at first cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
Sports Central August 3, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	The Have's and the Have Not's Much like we have already seen in terms of competition this Major League Baseball season, the July 31st midseason trade deadline has proven that "parity" seems to be the overall theme this year.
Sports Central May 31, 2008 Ben Feller	Why Baseball Needs Replay Now The main reason for replay is to get the calls correct. Another is for baseball to start to shy away from its old school image.