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Hometown Matching of a Minor League Baseball Team

Braves, and Ogden Raptors. The League has decided to capitalize on two positive aspects it has enjoyed since 1996; increased reve...

Proposing Increasing a Minor League Baseball Team's Revenue Streams

as well. If pricing is too high, there will be more unsold seats. Another part of pricing is whether or not there should be tier p...

Determining Monopsony in the Salaries of NonContracted and Contracted Baseball Players

In three pages Andrew and Victor Brajer's research into this topic as detailed in 1994's 'Baseball Stars and Baseball Cards: A Ne...

Baseball's Great Experiment by Tygel Reviewed

In five pages Major League baseball player Jackie Robinson's lasting legacy is examined within the context of Tygel's book....

Professional Sports and Collective Bargaining

aimed at preventing a lockout or restrictive system if a collective bargaining agreement could not be reached. It would appear th...

Success of the Boston Red Sox and the Contributions of Manager Theo Epstein

to encourage it meant that history was made twice - both in the comeback against the Yankees and in the victory in the World Serie...

Post 1900 History of the New York Yankees

the first time on April 22, 1903, losing to Washington (The Official Site of the New York Yankees, 2007). However, with a never s...

Out-Of Market Sports Fans

MLB Advanced Media has tapped into todays ever-mobile society by making games available to approximately one-quarter of a million ...

Women's Baseball Leagues in Historical Context

Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 for example (Roberts, 2005). The womens movement had begun and baseball was an...

The Korean Influence in Baseball

that continues to challenge social relations in contemporary society. "The willingness of the Dodgers to scout and sign Asian-bor...

MLB's New Steroid Policy Testing and its Moral Justification

athletes are not satisfied with their own natural level of performance, coupled with the increasing demands made by coaches, owner...

Business and Professional Athletes

of a game to be a business, and too much of a business to be a game" continues to provoke curiosity because the very nature of cor...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Wage Disputes, Collective Bargaining and the 1994 MLB Strike

This is because the assumption that wages are paid out of a fixed amount of capital has long been discredited (pp. 63). Bard and K...

1994's Major League Baseball's Strike

been lessened, the resentment might have been contained, and an equitable agreement might have been reached without the negation o...

Overview of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

"the Boys are back in town." The team has been described as one of the great American sports dynasties and yet it has had to deal...

Organized Sports and the Increasing Trend of Violence

violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...

An Analysis of the Film, Eight Men Out

This paper addresses the 1919 White Sox scandal in Major League Baseball that the film, Eight Men Out, is based on. This five pag...

MLB and Umpires Association

In eight pages this report examines the discord between Major League Baseball and its umpires in a discussion of collective bargai...

Keeping Broadcast TV 'Free'

In eleven pages this report discusses how pay per view television is threatening the 'free' broadcasting of events such as major l...

Road to the Streak by Ripken

5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the major themes and significant life events in Carl Ripken, Jr.'s...

MLB Games and Spectator Violence

In five pages this paper examines Major League Baseball games in a consideration of violence by spectators and discusses whether...

TV, Major League Baseball, and Economics

and the game. Televised Coverage of the National Pastime No on will deny that television has changed the character and promotion ...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

U.S. Major League Baseball and Desegregation

the United States and Canada. But it wasnt necessarily an amiable situation; far from it -- some white players refused to play aga...

Steroid Scandal in Major League Baseball and Congress

had used steroids and also claimed that as much as 50% pf the players used them (Schmaltz, 2002; 264). Another big name, Jose Cans...

Sports and Steroids

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...

NFL Strike of 1987 and Collective Bargaining

intended) in which very few people ever have the opportunity to participate. Collective bargaining in professional sports i...

Steroids and Major League Baseball

in men. "Females who use steroids may have problems with their menstrual cycles because steroids can disrupt the maturation and re...

Economics and Baseball's Reserve Clause

At first, players had no objections to the clause-on the contrary, because a team reserved only its "five best players," being put...