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Sports Central
August 16, 2004
David Zirin |
The MLB Strike: 25 Years in the Making Ask any sports fan their low point of the last decade and it would probably involve the 1994 baseball season, the year a player's strike/lockout ended a scintillating campaign and caused the first ever cancellation of the World Series.   |
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... |
Sports Central
December 10, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Marvin Miller, RIP: The Liberator Shepherding the Major League Baseball Players' Association from what amounted to a company union at the company's pleasure, Miller stood above all for justice for a class of men who had been mere property until he entered. |
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. |
Salon.com
July 13, 1999
Joan Walsh |
Willie Mays Willie Mays: In the mid-'60s, whites weren't ready for the best baseball player to be black, and blacks weren't ready for him to be black like Mays... |
Sports Central
December 4, 2007
Jeff Kallman |
It Should Have Been Miller Time Marvin Miller isn't in the Hall of Fame yet. |
Sports Central
June 3, 2005
Eric Poole |
Baseball of a Different Color While "September Swoon" sometimes gets bogged down in game accounts, it's worthwhile reading for its coverage of race and baseball, particularly in reference to the Philadelphia Phillies' Dick Allen, regarded as baseball's first black superstar malcontent. |
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 Illustrated
June 5, 2001 |
World's Deepest Bench The Supreme Court's decision last week in PGA Tour v. Martin, in which the high court ruled that the Tour must allow Casey Martin the use of a golf cart during tournaments, was merely the latest foray by the Washington Nine into the world of athletics... |
Salon.com
July 31, 2002
King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
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. |
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
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. |
Salon.com
June 14, 2001
Allen Barra |
Philly fans to Sixers: Boo! They want to love Allen Iverson and believe that he's a reformed thug. But somehow, thugs only get to be reformed when the home team wins... |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
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
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central
January 17, 2005
Bijan C. Bayne |
Buy, George: How to Learn to Love the Yanks Honest fans and objective journalists should take a breath, get over their big-market bias, and get a reality check on the Pinstriped Universe. |
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
March 5, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
The Pennant Race What can be done to make sports and entertainment appeal more to African-Americans in the audience? |
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. |
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
December 10, 2007
Wailele Sallas |
NBA Superstars Trading Places How has the NBA got to this point? |
Sports Illustrated
November 30, 2001
Lester Munson |
Selig's uphill battle As his plans for the contraction of Major League Baseball by two teams crumble around him, you have to wonder about Bud Selig. Did he actually think this strategy would work? |
Job Journal
May 20, 2007
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Legacy of a Legend What Jackie Robinson accomplished wasn't so much a baseball feat as it was a crucial civil rights breakthrough for all Americans. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
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. |
Salon.com
July 26, 2002
Allen Barra |
My most memorable baseball moments From Yogi's gift of total recall to Jennifer Lopez's uprising, my favorite memories of the game. |
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? |
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. |
