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Sports Central
June 28, 2007
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Bats Whittled Down to Uneven Playing Field If MLB wants to be taken seriously in preserving the integrity of the game, it must do a far better job of it rather than its present lethargic effort.   |
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. |
Sports Central
September 5, 2008
Diane M. Grassi |
Are MLB Bats the New PEDs? Of note is the correlation that primarily since 2003, when MLB initiated its survey drug testing, which later led to full-blown testing in 2004, that bats have been breaking at a rapid pace, and more and more each season. |
BusinessWeek
March 6, 2006
Mark Hyman |
Deck Them Out For The Ball Game Shopping for your Little Leaguer? Get ready for some Big League prices. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Jay Greene |
High-Tech Homers High-tech bats have quickly become must-have equipment for nearly every slow-pitch softball player, from recreation league novices to elite sluggers. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
David Coburn |
This Is My Job: Baseball Bat Maker A 25-year-old's love of baseball brought him to Sam Bat, an Ottawa-based manufacturer that produces maple bats for more than 150 pro players. |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Mark Hyman |
Take me Out to the Museum Baseball museums can't compete with the ballpark for the excitement of a squeeze bunt or the taste of a hot dog slathered with sauerkraut. But what they lack in ambiance they make up in their evocation of the rich history of the game. And there's more places to visit than just Cooperstown. |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2008
Chris Ladd |
With Makeshift Bat Cave, MLB to Scan Broken Wood for Fan Safety As the crack of the bat grows increasingly dangerous, instant replay isn't the only high-tech rethink in the works for Major League Baseball. Scientists are hard at work developing new designs for bats to keep stadiums safe. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
March 28, 2002
Allen Barra |
What Barry Bonds did wrong He's the best player in baseball, but hitting 73 home runs at age 37 isn't just unnatural, it might be ruining the game... |
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. |
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. |
Wired
April 24, 2007
John Wolfson |
Ball Busters The lonely engineers who keep Major League Baseball honest. |
Science News
April 9, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Sosa's Corked Bat How does a corked bat help a hitter? Actually, there's little scientific evidence that corking a bat actually makes much of a difference. But that didn't stop the rousing controversy that surrounded Major League Baseball's Sammy Sosa in June, 2003. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2005
Allen St. John |
Barry the Babe Who's the better hitter? When Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants bats for Babe Ruth's record a few weeks from now, it'll be a whole new ballgame for stat-obsessed fans. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
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
November 18, 2003
John Roberts |
Baseball's Truest Test Baseball has been brought back to reality after the dreamlike run the Florida Marlins gave us this past postseason. Major League Baseball announced more than five percent of its players randomly tested this year were positive for steroids of some sort. |
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. |
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... |
Salon.com
March 9, 2001
King Kaufman |
"Inside Pitch" by George Gmelch Podunk towns, brutal competition, wooden bats and dirty laundry -- an anthropologist shows what the lives of pro baseball players are really like... |
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. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Onomitsu & Ozasa |
Japan's Mizuno Swings for the Fences The sports equipment maker is focusing its resources to expanding in the U.S. |
Sports Illustrated
October 25, 2000
Frank Deford |
National Passed Time Baseball is still our game -- if we can stay awake. The bizarre thing about baseball is nobody disputes that the games are too long, and because of this the game is being terribly harmed... |
Sports Central
April 13, 2006
Matt Thomas |
It's Only Cheating if You Get Caught Major League Baseball's "seek-and-destroy" mentality targeting steroid users and abusers is doing nothing to help the integrity of the game. |
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
October 31, 2012
Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball! |
InternetNews
July 12, 2005
Roy Mark |
MLB.com: Online All-Star As players take the field for the annual game tonight, the online arm of baseball hopes to see annual growth of 30 to 50 percent. MLB.com is running up impressive numbers selling content, tickets and memorabilia. |
Sports Central
July 22, 2011
Neil Bright |
Never Enough Looking back at Derek Jeter's career, it is hard to fathom how his recent critics have been so blind. No, he is not the second coming of Babe Ruth and no he doesn't live on Mount Olympus. But he hardly has feet of clay either. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2005
Jeff Hwang |
Take-Two Takes the Mound Will the company's baseball deal strike out, or will it toss EA out of the ballpark? |
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
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. |
AskMen.com
October 16, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Can We Make Baseball Profitable? At a time when most baseball franchises are crying poverty, how can MLB increase revenue for its franchises? |
Sports Illustrated
January 10, 2001
Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games... |
Sports Illustrated
September 10, 2002
Tom Verducci |
A Dopey Policy Baseball's new drug testing program is the laughingstock of experts who see it for what it is -- a toothless public relations ploy. |
Sports Illustrated
May 3, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Meaningless milestones Baseball's 'magic numbers' don't mean what they used to... |
Sports Central
January 4, 2008
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Ill-Equipped For Global Politics Has Major League Baseball bitten off more than it can chew in entering the world of global politics? |
Sports Central
February 17, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
You Can't Always Get What You Want Barry Bonds from nearly the beginning of his major league career behaved as though baseball was his entitlement and its record books, his birthright. |
Sports Central
September 20, 2006
Ryan Day |
The Team Everybody Wants to Play Florida is ripe with young baseball talent. Yet, beginning in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have done nothing but lose, finishing last in their division in every year except one. |
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. |
