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12 Jul 2009, 10:57 am
Granted, it wasn't "major league" soccer, even by U.S. standards. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 12:13 am by Randall Reese
The Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball franchise filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday in the bankruptcy court in Delaware. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 8:53 am by Ray Frager
The award, given since 1936, is voted on by a panel of 33 major league executives. ... [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 1:15 pm by Lovechilde
Major League Baseball has announced that starting this season the playoffs will be expanded with two Wild Card teams in each league instead of one. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 6:14 am
Bowing to pressure from the Senator and angry baseball fans, Major League Baseball and iN Demand, owned by Comcast, Cox and Time Warner, reached an agreement yesterday to allow the cable operators to carry the Extra Innings package of out of market baseball games for the next seven years that had previously been awarded to Direct TV on an exclusive basis. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 12:24 pm
The team's owner, Shortstop LLC, which also owns the Portland Timbers soccer team, has committed itself to (a) buying a new soccer franchise, in the Major League Soccer league; and (b) getting the City of Portland to convert PGE Park, the current home of the Beavers, into a facility that would specifically be unsuitable for baseball. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 3:16 pm
Los Angeles - Disney's Pixar Animation Studios is embroiled in trademark dispute with the Major League Baseball outfit, the Atlanta Braves. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 9:47 am
CBC won a 2006 court case to gain legal protection from using Major League Baseball player names and statistics without a license.MLBAM argued that the commercial use of such data without a license was a breach of its rights. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 11:01 pm
Given the inexplicable popularity of NFL football practice in these parts, who cares about Major League Baseball anymore, anyway? [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 12:01 pm by Howard Wasserman
Marvin Miller--the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association and the creative force behind the modern economics of baseball and all professional sports--was elected to the Hall of Fame yesterday. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 8:11 pm
"Appeals court will decide whether feds can use steroid test results of 100 pro baseball players": Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has an update that begins, "A federal appeals court today escalated the heated legal feud between the federal government and the Major League Baseball players' union, deciding to rehear a case involving the controversial seizure of the names and urine samples of about 100 players who failed a 2004 steroids… [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African-American player in modern major league baseball. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 1:28 pm by Brando Simeo Starkey
With the movie 42 coming out on Friday, I’m sure we’ll hear folk say that Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League baseball player. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 8:43 am by J. Gordon Hylton
National League decision and affirmed most recently by Congress in the Curt Flood Act (1998), is a well-known feature of Major League Baseball’s history. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 11:00 pm
I can easily do without the Kiss Cam, which is one of the ubiquitous fan participation entertainment segments that most Major League Baseball ballparks run between innings these days. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 11:00 am
New Jersey Senator Steven Oroho, primary sponsor of comprehensive legislation to mitigate steroid use among students, stated the following in response to today’s vote to keep known and alleged performance enhancing drug users out of Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame: “Hall of Fame voters set the right example for America’s youth by denying baseball’s ultimate, eternal distinction to former players whose careers are justly tarnished… [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 11:00 pm by Doug Austin
According to an article in the New York Times, one Major League Baseball team has defined a new way of playing “hardball” with the competition – hacking into the network of another team to capture closely guarded information about players. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 8:33 am by Jason B. Wolf
With the 2010 Major League Baseball Rule IV Draft upon us, one of the burning questions around the country among draftees becomes what the prospect of becoming a professional baseball player is. [read post]