Tag: American League

There will be a new mayor in Oakland and a new governor in Nevada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmrckfNPKyA Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and Oakland Athletics owner John...

MLB needs to solve two stadium problems before it will expand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPwbW2B_sI Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is once again talking about his business expanding...

PHOENIX (AP) — Even with the homer heroics of sluggers like Aaron Judge and Albert Pujols, Major League Baseball wasn’t able to coax fans to ballparks...

The 100th anniversary of the exemption is still celebrated by the Barons of Baseball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFNcxJfGms Does Major League Baseball still need a full antitrust exemption? The...

MLB has left the building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awdCgAqoM0M It is all over for Buffalo as a Major League Baseball city. The Toronto Blue Jays franchise is going back...

Baseball owners never thought about an All Star Game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyaDwmix54 The Major League Baseball All Star Game started off as a gimmick and remains a gimmick...

Multiple owners have had problems owning the A's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFIMMVrrhoU In the 1960s, Kansas City Athletics baseball team owner Charles Finley decided he didn’t like Kansas City...

Sports has made a bumpy comeback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JijqTwniVuQ A year ago, the sports world stopped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Basketball Association shut down on...

Major League Baseball returns for the first time since 1890. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKN_JgQc9QA Major League Baseball will finally play some games in Buffalo, New York as the city...

The first politics of sports business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC35GXLv-PM Sixty-seven years ago today, Lou Perini moved his Boston Braves National League baseball team to Milwaukee and changed how...