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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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

A Poem Comparison, Frost, Hughes

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Law and Gambling in Professional Sports

hoping no gambling is occurring, thus there is no sensible regulation. As a result, we dont protect the integrity of any game bec...

Major League Baseball, Drug Testing, and Ethics

They also promised tough penalties for testing positive ranging from a ten-day suspension for a first positive testing and a possi...

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 ...

Major League Baseball and Revenue Sharing

standard practice in major league baseball (MLB) for over a decade. This paper defines revenue sharing and argues that it is appar...

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...

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...

Grievance Procedures in Sports

assists community and charitable organizations; and it enhances and defends the NFL players image "on and off the field" (Our hist...

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...