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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.   |
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
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
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
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
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. |
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
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
April 24, 2012
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Desire For Cuban Players Overshadowed One can only hope that one day MLB will not solely rely upon the almighty dollar to feel right about its decisions, but also will do right, on behalf of not only American baseball community, but for the Latin American community, rather than just bleeding its talent dry. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Mark Hyman |
The Racial Gap In The Grandstands Major League Baseball is aggressively courting Latinos as African Americans drift away. |
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
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
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. |
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 21, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Hearings Expose Inept Congress and MLB The House of Representatives and its House Government Reform Committee held hearings on March 17, 2005 supposedly to bring light to the subject on the prevention of steroid use in Major League Baseball. |
Sports Central
July 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Bringing New Meaning to Free Trade America's national pastime continues to rake in record high revenues, yet it continues to remain deaf to concerns about the manufacture of equipment and uniforms and unfair labor practices in the third world. |
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. |
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? |
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
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. |
CIO
April 1, 2003
Michael Fitzgerald |
The CIO of Summer - Baseball I.T. The Detroit Tigers' IT skipper Cole Stewart is probably the closest thing to a bona fide CIO in major league baseball. |
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
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? |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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
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
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
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? |
Fast Company
April 2008
Will Leitch |
MLB's Digital Dominance As the world scrambles to master online video, crusty old baseball already has it figured out. |
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
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
March 27, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships? |
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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
AskMen.com
November 29, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Pro Sports Salaries How can we explain the meteoric rise of players' salaries? |
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
May 27, 2009
David Welch & David Kiley |
The Tough Road Ahead for GM and Chrysler Bankruptcy would produce leaner automakers, but it would still leave lots of debt and do nothing to fix their images - or the disastrous marketplace. |
Salon.com
July 27, 2000
Susan B. Shor |
Baseball for bimbos Apparently, commissioner Bud Selig has just figured out that wives, moms and other female significant others have decision-making power in their families. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
