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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
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
AskMen.com
July 26, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Baseball Finances: Owners & Players Whether it's players asking for astronomical salaries, or owners complaining about million dollar losses, the public in general is bombarded with messages advertising the greed of owners and players alike. |
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. |
Inc.
April 2005
Alan Schwarz |
How I Did It: Mike Veeck Midgets? Nuns who give massages? Disco Demolition Night? Free vasectomies on Father's Day? If there's one thing Mike Veeck learned from his father Bill, and from building a profitable empire of minor league baseball teams, it's this: Fun is good. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Paul Wachter |
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose. It's How You Sell the Game Plan B. Branding helps turn minor league baseball into a lucrative, lovable freak show |
Sports Central
October 19, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
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. |
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... |
Fast Company
April 2009
Zachary Wilson |
HOK Imagines the Ballpark of the Future A look at the Yankees' and Mets' pricey new homes -- and the baseball stadium of tomorrow. |
Reason
January 2004
Matt Welch |
If You Build It, They Will Leave Sports teams fleece the taxpayer, again, by threatening to leave even after taxpayers pay for new stadiums to placate team owners. |
Entrepreneur
August 2010
Bruce Schoenfeld |
The Turnaround Artist Jim Pohlad inherited a failing team - the Minnesota Twins - on the verge of disappearing from baseball. What saved it? Thinking like a small business. |
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. |
Salon.com
April 3, 2000
Steve Burgess |
If you fold it, they will come Minor league baseball is bittersweet. The players are praying for a ticket out, and it's even worse when the team is looking to move, too. |
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? |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Ryan Bradley |
Go Northwest, Young Man When he discovered hidden assets in an underserved market, Merritt Paulson gave Dad a call |
Fast Company
November 2000
Geoff Calkins |
'We've Taken the Greed Out of Sports' In a city that has suffered as a victim of the old style of sports ownership, the Redbirds and their ballpark have had a transforming effect. "It's become the most important facility in the city," says Steve Cohen, a state senator... |
Reason
May 2005
Matt Welch |
Subsidies and Lies Few corporate welfare tales are filled with as many tawdry lies as the return of professional baseball to the nation's capital. |
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
April 15, 2005
Derek Daggett |
Fight Club: Fenway-Style Major League Baseball needs to enact a no tolerance policy to address the problem of fan misbehavior. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2000
Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
AskMen.com
May 10, 2001
Harry Marks |
Top 10 Baseball Ballparks Baseball's back, and what better way to mark this return than with a list honoring the Top 10 Baseball Ballparks in the Major Leagues today... |
AskMen.com
April 6, 2013
Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
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. |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
"It Still Hurts When You Lose." In this economy, an NBA CFO has to make all the right moves. An interview with Charlie Mierswa, SVP and CFO, New Jersey Nets. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Symonds, Lowry, Polek & Weber |
Breaking The Curse Can John Henry's Red Sox finally win a World Series? |
Reason
May 2005
Daniel McGraw |
Demolishing Sports Welfare Two court cases could mean the end of publicly funded stadiums. |
Sports Central
September 21, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
MLB Stadiums' Biggest Quirks Here's a look at some of the most bizarre in-play obstacles in Major League Baseball today. |
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 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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Check your calendar Despite some feel-good stories in Major League Baseball, keep in mind it's only April... |
BusinessWeek
March 31, 2011
Ira Boudway |
Baseball: Running the New Numbers Reams of data from motion-capture technology may soon revolutionize America's pastime. |
Wired
October 2009
Drake Bennett |
Stefan Szymanski and Stephen Ross: Bust Up Big League Sports In the current system, major league team owners are rewarded for mediocrity. How can we demand better? Make teams compete for a spot in the majors. |
Sports Central
March 16, 2006
Alfons Prince |
Nats Have New Stadium, But at What Cost? While the city remains divided over the stadium, the bigger problem may be trying to justify the stadium to those high school children who see bigger issues in the city. |
Fast Company
April 2012
Chuck Salter |
MLB Advanced Media's Bob Bowman Is Playing Digital Hardball. And He's Winning. Major League Baseball Advanced Media - BAM, for short - is as technologically sophisticated as any company, anywhere. Here's how a winning and profitable strategy is being built by an online player that breaks all the rules. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
AskMen.com
Ryan Murphy |
Top 10: American Baseball Parks A list of the ten mightiest cathedrals in baseball based on overall aesthetic appeal, architectural integrity, and unique features. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
November 20, 2002
Franz Lidz |
Promo Sapiens With trained pigs, wacky nuns and Vasectomy Night, minor-league baseball marketing wizard Mike Veeck is teaching the sports world to give fans their funny's worth. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2005
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Hardball Software If you can't get enough of the Great American Pastime at your local stadium or on TV, these baseball video games will make you happier than a hot dog and a soda: Baseball Mogul 2006... Diamond Mind Baseball 9... etc. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2004
Greg Wyshynski |
Capital Concerns I never got the baseball thing. That insatiable quest to bring America's pastime back to the District after losing franchises to Minnesota and Texas over the last century. |
Sports Central
November 18, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
I Don't Know Jack Would Mets fans still have no problem with the Jackie Robinson Rotunda if he had been a Yankee? |
Sports Central
July 4, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
How to Improve the MLB All-Star Game MLB's All-Star Game should be saved and improved. |
