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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.
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.
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 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 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 June 2, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	A Fair Process to Becoming an Owner? The question needs to be asked as to whether presiding Commissioner of MLB Bud Selig makes major decisions such as team ownership based upon sound business acumen or subjective reasoning influenced by his personal relationships.
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 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 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 January 19, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	In-Debted MLB Owners Welcome Back Bud And debt is the key word here, as MLB team owners handed current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig an extension to his present contract by adding another two years.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
Reason June 2002 Matt Welch	Foul Ball How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a revered Cuban baseball historian...
Sports Central March 12, 2008 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare MLB and two of its two major league teams cash in on public entitlements, courtesy of the City of New York.
Sports Central March 19, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	Investigation Casts Cloud Over Marlins An orchestration of monumental cover-ups, glad-handing, and pay-for-play campaign finance schemes continue to inflict consumers, taxpayers, and the public-at-large, by way of MLB, with civil practices by government officials from the unethical to the criminal in the case of the Marlins.
Sports Central July 20, 2010 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Gaming the Sale of Texas Rangers Continues The sale of the Rangers still awaits finalization and most importantly, the investment group to be awarded the final sale of the club has yet to be determined by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and ultimately to be approved by MLB and its respective owners.
Sports Central May 19, 2010 Brad Oremland	Bud Selig Gets it Wrong Again Major League Baseball's Bud Selig has long been the most tone-deaf commissioner in major North American sports (sorry, Gary Bettman).
AskMen.com November 28, 2001 Mark Simmons	MLB: From Expansion To Contraction In this game of musical chairs, when the music stops, so will the game for two teams. So why has MLB decided to break with tradition? Will MLB contract for the first time in approximately 105 years?
Sports Central November 30, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Jeopardizes 2006 Season for Nationals Any success the Washington Nationals enjoy in 2006 will be in spite of Commissioner Selig, not because of him.
Sports Central April 14, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Ramps Up Casino Sponsorships How does MLB oversee such sponsorships between MLB teams and those casino operations that allow legal sports betting on their premises?
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 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.
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.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Ronald Grover	Extra Innings in the Digital Game Digital rights looked like peanuts in 2000. Now some Major League Baseball owners want a bigger share.
Sports Central October 13, 2008 Diane M. Grassi	MLB is No Longer Recession-Proof When Wall Street tanks, it not only has profound global ramifications, but impacts the local economies and the financing of MLB teams is entrenched in corporate sponsorships.
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 January 9, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Network Rolls Out With Bait and Switch On January 1, 2009, Major League Baseball launched its long-awaited Major League Baseball Network on major cable broadcast providers throughout U.S. television markets.
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 Phil Helm	Top 10: MLB Colleges Here are the top 10 colleges that produce MLB players.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mark Hyman	The Next Great Baseball Rivalry The Nationals and Orioles will be fierce competitors -- at the ticket window
AskMen.com October 15, 2003 John Clarkson	The Wild Face Of Baseball Baseball may be the national pastime, but there has been legitimate cause for years to wonder if Major League Baseball (MLB) is the forum in which America chooses to express her love for the sport.
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.
Salon.com August 30, 2002 Allen Barra	Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this?
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 August 11, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Sportswriter Scoops Self to Remain Relevant When a journalist perhaps sees the writing on the proverbial wall, does he or she then deliberately bend the rules to remain relevant? Such apparently appears to be the case as evidenced in a July 27, 2009 NY Daily News column written by highly regarded sportswriter Bill Madden.
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.
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind.
Sports Central September 17, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	MLB and its Fans Need to Clean Up Their Acts Major League Baseball, as well as its fans, took a collective literal blow on Monday, September 13th at Oakland Coliseum at a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers.
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.
BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 Mark Hyman	Washington: Who'll Win the Expos? The jockeying to win Washington's new baseball team gets fierce. It'll take more than cash.
Sports Central November 29, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's HGH Test More Smoke and Mirrors Major League Baseball's latest feat of extended "labor peace" with the Major League Players Association was reached on November 22, 2011.
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?
BusinessWeek July 21, 2003 Mark Hyman	This Waiting Game Is a Smart Play For the past two seasons, the future of the Montreal Expos has been hanging like a pop-up in the thick air of a July afternoon. But is Major League Baseball now ready to act?