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Salon.com April 25, 2001 Allen Barra |
The golden age of pitching is now When you consider what today's hurlers have to deal with, our low opinion of them is way off-base. Plus: Does God answer NASCAR prayers? |
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... |
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... |
Salon.com August 2, 2002 Allen Barra |
The foolishness of the baseball writers. Plus: More baseball memories With sports writers so confused about baseball's labor issues, it's no wonder the fans are all at sea. |
Sports Illustrated April 26, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Vlad, undervalued? Believe it Baseball Q&A: Who is over/under rated?... Considering how thin starting pitching is, why don't managers entertain the idea of returning to the days of four-man rotations?... Are the Braves interested in acquiring A-Rod in the off-season?... etc. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Sports Central June 4, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
The 10 Greatest Records in Baseball The heroes of baseball past should share the same celebration as Memorial Day, but too often, fans and managers get caught up in the pitching probables of the day, strategic moves that were made or missed, and minor injuries to the game's biggest names. |
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? |
Salon.com June 20, 2002 Allen Barra |
Marvin Miller: Don't trust baseball's drug-testing proposal The former head of the Baseball Players Association says that the owners have no reason to crack down on steroid use -- so the commissioner's random-test proposal may just be moral grandstanding. |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2001 Daniel G. Habib |
A Selig Smoke Screen Talk of beanballs and a new draft clouds baseball's big issue... |
Sports Central March 10, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting. |
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. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
What baseball needs to do now A few modest proposals to prevent the game from squandering whatever fan goodwill remains. |
Sports Illustrated November 19, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
An easy offseason Baseball pitching vs. tennis serving, continued... |
Reason May 2005 Matt Welch |
Locker-Room Liberty Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them. Book reviews: Namath: A Biography, by Mark Kriegel... September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies, and Racial Integration, by William C. Kashatus... etc. |
Sports Illustrated August 13, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Look who's talking Players made the right call by not setting a strike date |
Salon.com August 9, 2002 Allen Barra |
Don Fehr's drug-testing gamble The Players Association head agreed to random drug testing because he knows it's a phony issue for the owners. Plus: George Allen, and more baseball memories. |
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 May 9, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
Modern Problems, Modern Solutions An outline of innovative and appropriate solutions to baseball's major problems such as foolish fans and luxury tax failures. |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Sports Illustrated January 15, 2002 Kostya Kennedy |
Captain Conflict It's high time Bud Selig steps down as Major League Baseball commissioner... |
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Ira Boudway |
Baseball: Running the New Numbers Reams of data from motion-capture technology may soon revolutionize America's pastime. |
Sports Central December 18, 2011 Neil Bright |
Forward to the Past As the Luddites before them, those opposing the expanded use of instant replay in major league baseball base their objections less on rational thought than on illogical fears of change. |
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 December 11, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Has a Date with an Angell At long enough last the Hall of Fame has a date with an Angell. Roger Angell at 93 is going to be honored as have the like of Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Jim Murray, Damon Runyon, and Shirley Povich. |
Salon.com July 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
Salon.com October 7, 1999 Joan Walsh |
Talking baseball with Hank Greenwald The best broadcaster you won't hear on the air talks about umpire arrogance, the home-run chase and "the Viagra of baseball." |
Salon.com July 25, 2001 Allen Barra |
Throw the bums out! It's time to eject baseball's owners for arguing balls and strikes... |
Salon.com July 10, 2002 King Kaufman |
All-Star outrage The game ended in a tie. That's not a problem, but baseball still screwed up. |
Sports Illustrated April 16, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Indecent proposal The baseball team owners' latest plan indicates long road ahead in labor battle... |
Sports Central June 20, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids. |
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 Illustrated July 17, 2002 Kostya Kennedy |
Game hunting Perhaps we all need a vacation from the sports pages. |
Salon.com May 26, 2001 Steve Kettmann |
Baseball boyfriend? When Out magazine's editor claimed his lover plays in the majors, he set off a media frenzy. But it's only a matter of time before gays get their Jackie Robinson. |
Sports Central September 5, 2014 Corrie Trouw |
A Game of Numbers Baseball is dying. Haven't you heard? |
AskMen.com Pete Flies |
Top 10: Classic Baseball Plays Here are 10 classic baseball plays that will remind us why baseball in October is great. |
Sports Central July 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
D-Train's Derailment, and Others' How strange and sad it is, now and over a lifetime of watching and loving the game, that as often as not the players who are the most fun to watch become the players whose careers derail soon enough after they get their first tastes of success. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002 Tom Verducci |
A glimmer of hope Opponents could benefit as the Yankees' rotation struggles. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated July 17, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The Milwaukee Misunderstanding Don't take All-Star Game criticism personally. |
Sports Central February 19, 2008 Seth Doria |
Are We in the Dark Ages of Sport? These are the dark ages of sports morality. |
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! |
Salon.com July 11, 2002 Allen Barra |
Ted Williams, Bud Selig and baseball's very bad week Ted Williams transcended the game; Bud Selig took the fun out of it. The clueless commish should have used position players to pitch in the All-Star Game. |
CIO March 15, 2004 |
Rulings on the Field - Sports A Bronx cheer greeted Major League Baseball's use of the Umpire Information System from QuesTec in 2003. |
Reason December 2003 Matt Welch |
Balls The joy of watching ideas win -- a review of Michael Lewis's Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
Salon.com January 3, 2001 Allen Barra |
Marvin Miller, Hall of Famer The union founder made ballplayers unimaginably rich. Will they ever have the guts to demand that he be enshrined in Cooperstown?... Also, why do people complain that there are too many college bowl games? |
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. |