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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...

Analyzing The Wages of Wins by David J. Berri

Efficiency, which was similar to Robert Bellottis Points Created model and Dave Heerans TENDEX measurement (The Wins Produced Stor...

Sports Markets and Demand Forecasting

for a number of reasons. For instance, when one takes a superficial look at any given culture, it seems as if there are certain "c...

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...

Sports and Steroids

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

Baseball Stadium Planning

of the contract to equal the additional hours of half days on Saturday during spring and summer. Assessment of Alternatives ...

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...

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...

A Sport Scandals History

In 1876 for example, the National League had been created, something done to promote a more businesslike atmosphere for the game (...

Excel Baseball Case Study

Min $300,000 Range $6,200,000 San Francisco San Fransico Max $15,000,000 Min $300,000 Range $14,700,000 NY Mets NY Mets M...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

Overlooked Major League Baseball Star Roger Maris

of his surname) was born on September 10, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota. His Austrian grandfather had settled in the town north of D...

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...

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...

Dance and Daily Life Movement

up his body from the legs, then the hips, shoulders, arms, wrist and finally the fingers as the ball is released from the pitchers...

Aluminum Baseball Bats and Marketing Challenges

But what might be considered is that the increased hitting has added a greater measure of excitement to a game that has floundered...

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 ...

Sports Marketing and Consumer Behavior

companys overall success than anything else. Being able to actualize, even if just in ones mind, the corporations ultimate goal w...

Government and American Major League Baseball

things such as television rights and licensing fees, while each individual team is responsible for marketing games to consumers. I...

Steroid Testing in the Major League

has a bill in place that would require all sporting organizations wishing to play in the state require drug testing (2002). Such...

Heterosexual Relationships v. Same Sex Relationships

specific reasons according to Kurdek. First, women tend to be the relationship experts in a couple, and they tend to have the solu...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

The Anti-trust Exemption in Baseball

most, if not all their careers (Sensenbrenner, 2001). Back then, baseball could be considered in "dire financial straits," and the...

The Baseball 'Business' from a Sociological Perspective

makes more money for the team, so while a player may command a million dollar salary, the team owners profit much more than he doe...

Baseball as America's Favorite Sport

notwithstanding, Doubledays involvement in baseballs Civil War presence is what has come to represent the start of a national trad...

Cold World Impacts Documented in Underworld by Don Delillo

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

Superstition in Baseball

Athletes that are motivated with a particularly profound need to succeed seek to control events and situations by any means possib...

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...