In light of Major League Baseball’s economic proposal presented Tuesday afternoon to the Players Association, pay cuts for players is a topic weighing heavily on everyone’s mind as they await the start of a shortened season. After the COVID-19 outbreak in early March put a stop to baseball, players were due to receive their full per-game salaries in a shortened season in an agreement...
Read More
Despite many fears that 2020 will be the year without baseball, three Major League Baseball officials said the season may be expected to start in late June, and no later than July 2, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today on Tuesday. The plan is still under consideration but, if implemented, it would amount to at least 100 regular-season games. The plan would also allow for teams to play in...
Read More
Major League Baseball players and employees will be participating in a Stanford University, USC, and Sports Medicine Research Testing Laboratory (SMRTL) medical study of COVID-19, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN on Tuesday. The study will test up to 10,000 people to identify coronavirus antibodies, with the hope of understanding how widespread the virus is in major cities. Researchers found...
Read More
MLB will be streaming Johan Santana’s June 1, 2012 no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals on social platforms as part of their #MLBATHOME series. The historic moment in Mets history was the franchise’s first no-hitter. The moment was made possible largely in part to an incredible seventh-inning catch by left fielder Mike Baxter, in which he hit the wall and subsequently landed on...
Read More
As an avid reader– and now a graduate student studying sports industry management– I have done my fair share of reading and critiquing some good and some not-so-good books on baseball. While we all enjoy a quick-hitting game recap or a fast analysis of players, there’s something magical about flipping through the pages of a long-form, thought-provoking book about baseball. Whether you want to...
Read More
