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March 28, 2001
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Twilight Zone Umpires decide to follow the rules regarding strike zone...   |
Sports Illustrated
June 4, 2003
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Man vs. Machine Pitchers are swinging away and umpires are crying foul, but QuesTec, baseball's high-tech strike zone evaluator, is good for the 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. |
Salon.com
July 25, 2001
Allen Barra |
Throw the bums out! It's time to eject baseball's owners for arguing balls and strikes... |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Pitchers strike out Umps will call 'em high, but Maddux is down and out... |
Sports Central
September 15, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
Will MLB's Latest Tech Hurt the Game? As the end of the 2009 Major League Baseball season approaches, here's a critical look at the technological advances instituted in 2009 and intended for the game's future progress. |
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. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2008
Ben Feller |
Why Baseball Needs Replay Now The main reason for replay is to get the calls correct. Another is for baseball to start to shy away from its old school image. |
Sports Central
September 20, 2010
Jess Coleman |
Baseball Needs to Say Yes to Instant Replay It becomes clearer everyday that baseball needs replay. |
Sports Central
September 17, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Chief Umpire of the Supreme Court Judge John Roberts' comparison of judges to umpires during his confirmation hearing... Comments on beer commercials... |
PC Magazine
March 3, 2009
Daniel S. Evans |
MLB 09: The Show Whatever level of baseball realism you want and whether you want to work your way up, just play the Big One, manage -- you name it, this PS3, PSP, and PS2 game lets you do it. |
Sports Central
November 15, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Let There Be Replay, at Long Enough Last And baseball umpires will still be only human. But getting it right when pennant races or championships turn is as right as mere humans and the technologies humans create can get. |
Sports Central
September 22, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
West's Suspension vs. Real Accountability If baseball umpires are supposed to be above the field's passions should they not be held to standards just a little bit higher? |
Sports Central
July 28, 2006
Kevin Beane |
Rethinking the Fundamentals Each of the three U.S major sports has its share of conventional strategy that needs to start being questioned. |
| AskMen.com |
Baseball-Playing Robots A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 19, 2014
Michael Blanding |
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers Are baseball umpires racist? Are ministers motivated by money? Christopher Parsons teases important strategic lessons from unlikely sources. |
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 Illustrated
May 7, 2002
Tom Verducci |
April's alter egos Pitching returns to the NL, but offense still reigns in the AL... |
Sports Central
November 15, 2004
Martin Hawrysko |
Instant Reply in Baseball is No Blown Call Many calls were questioned during this year's Major League Baseball postseason. Luckily, the umpires got them right -- generally not the case during the regular season, nor in past postseasons. The time for instant replay in baseball may be here -- umpires, after all, are only human. |
CRM
July 2013
Denis Pombriant |
Making the Play with CRM As with baseball, customer service is a waiting game. |
Sports Illustrated
May 17, 2000 |
The great juiced-ball conspiracy This much we know. More players hit more home runs than ever before. But we don't know why.... |
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
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
June 11, 2010
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: MLB's "Perfect" Conspiracy Major League Baseball umpire Jim Joyce's blown call on a play at first cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2007
Emil Lee |
Finding Fat Pitches In investing, as in baseball, you should seek situations that play to your strengths. Know what's not in your strike zone, swing for the fences, and wait for the fat pitch. |
Salon.com
November 1, 2000
Allen Barra |
Are you ready for some gadgets? The yellow first-down line and the glowing hockey puck are just the tip of the high-tech iceberg that will change how you watch sports... |
Sports Central
May 4, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
Smithsonian
October 2006 |
Cricket for Dummies It's a lot like baseball. Except that it's profoundly different. |
Science News
July 10, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Pythagoras Plays Ball Baseball, like engineering and science, is a game of inches and feet. |
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. |
Salon.com
October 8, 2000
King Kaufman |
Why baseball beats football The ump blew the call! My team got robbed! Thank goodness there's no instant replay. Plus: The Yankees aren't the '64 Phillies. Get over it... |
CFO
September 15, 2003
Scott Leibs |
Technology Throws Another Curve The camera may not lie, but it doesn't substitute for savvy management, as Baseball found out when it installed the Questec system for auditing umpires' ball-and-strike calls. |
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 Illustrated
August 13, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Look who's talking Players made the right call by not setting a strike date |
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
April 17, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Losing Sight on Replay On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that MLB is "leaning toward" an expansion of instant replay that would include trapped balls and fair-or-foul rulings down the lines. |
Sports Illustrated
November 19, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
An easy offseason Baseball pitching vs. tennis serving, continued... |
AskMen.com
January 22, 2003
Mark Simmons |
Sports Officiating: Is It For You? True, many call the shots for the love of the game, but the ones that make it to the professional levels have more than love to show for their efforts. |
Sports Illustrated
July 26, 2000
Frank Deford |
Incompetent owners ruining baseball Do you ever want to, as I do now, just give up on baseball? I don't mean on the game, but on the way it is run -- or isn't run. It's just the same old issues, over and over, that never get resolved... |
Sports Illustrated
October 10, 2000
Rick Reilly |
Major League Torture For reasons that scientists don't fully understand, there are still a few humans in this country who watch baseball games on television from start to finish, without the use of restraints, amphetamines or toothpicks... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
The Business Of Officiating Athletes aren't the only people who dream of making it to the big leagues. In fact, some people aspire to take to the fields of the MLB and the NFL in a different type of uniform. |
Sports Illustrated
February 28, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Star players won't rock the Red Sox boat... |
Sports Central
September 5, 2014
Corrie Trouw |
A Game of Numbers Baseball is dying. Haven't you heard? |
Job Journal
April 3, 2005
Mary Ann Bailey |
Career Pros: Simple Steps for Staying Stuck Feel "stuck"? Change these five fundamental attitudes that defeat your efforts to 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. |
AskMen.com
Simon Sinek |
Are You Willing To Strike Out?: Simon Sinek It's perfectly fine to be a good, solid player who doesn't go down swinging that often, but it also means you won't hit that many home runs. |
Salon.com
July 25, 2002
Keith Olbermann |
How to remember Sept. 11 -- and how not to Salon's new columnist looks at what the upcoming baseball strike and "Sex & the City" tell us about the looming one-year anniversary. |
Sports Illustrated
June 13, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Interleague played-out Baseball's experiment may have run its course... |
Sports Central
April 9, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Joe West Has Game, Unfortunately God knows (as does His servant Casey Stengel) that I had better things to write about on the day after Opening Days. |
