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Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more
MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
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1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever
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Baseball people believed they knew the answers to those questions, and all the others. But those assumptions hadn’t been tested in decades, if ever, so it shouldn’t be surprising that many of them turned out to be wrong. From that gap between the assumed and the actual, Beane and his assistants were able to use their limited budget to construct div
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The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat
Tom Wolfe • A Man in Full: A Novel
The sequestering of the big Butte market was duck soup for the aggressive Hill and allowed him to play the role that would make him a legend: forcing competitiveness on a rigged market.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
