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What the Blue Jays can learn from missing out on the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes

Shohei Ohtani during a Los Angeles Angels baseball game against the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, Calif., Sept. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) by Ryan Clutterbuck, Brock...

Against baseball’s new pitch clock

by Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley Baseball moves very fast. That’s how it seems to me, anyway. Just try coaching a Little League game; decisions...

How legalized sports betting has transformed the fan experience

by John Affleck, Penn State A couple of days before Christmas, I went to see the NHL’s Nashville Predators play on their home ice against...

The first televised World Series spurred America’s television boom, 75 years ago

An estimated 3.5 million Americans viewed the first televised World Series at bars, restaurants and storefronts. Bettmann/Getty Images by James Walker, Saint Xavier University Boston Red Sox...

How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig at 22 years old

Barber called Scully, pictured in a broadcast booth prior to a Los Angeles Dodgers game, ‘the son I never had.’ Sporting News via Getty Images by...

The Cleveland Indians changed their team name – what’s holding back Atlanta?

by Peter Dreier, Occidental College In October 1995, as the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves prepared to face off in the World Series, a group...

Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘White man’s party’

Chris Lamb, IUPUI On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever changing baseball and society. Robinson was Black, and...

Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history

Peter Dreier, Occidental College In our new book, “Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America,” Rob...

MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement fails to address players’ biggest grievances

Players voted to accept Major League Baseball’s offer on a new labor deal, paving the way to end the 99-day lockout and salvage the...

Kemp blames Stacey Abrams for MLB pullout

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp struck out with the MLB and is deflecting the backlash for the vindictive and repressive voting legislation he signed into...

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