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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. |
