Tag: American League
Shuffling Off From Buffalo
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...
MLB’s All Star Game Started Off As A Political Event
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...
The Athletics Business Has Been A Baseball Problem For 57 Years
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...
A Year Ago, COVID-19 Stopped Sports
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...
The Blue Jays Shuffle Off To Buffalo
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...
How Milwaukee Changed Sports By Getting Lou Perini’s Braves In 1953
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...
Investors And A Bank Want To Reinvent Professional Golf
Can you reinvent the wheel? Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWHm1EMMTh4
It is easy to
say you want to start a new league. Vince McMahon has done it twice with...
Major League Baseball Will Survive The Sign Stealing Integrity Issue
The game will go on. Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dSlzDadTqA
There were some whispers of concern going into
the new season. Something was wrong with the outcome of baseball’s...
D.C. Stadium And The Civil Rights Movement
The bully pulpit worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEOdJkFVgM
Washington’s D. C. Stadium will be gone within two years but it should have been designated as a historical site defining...
The Major League All Star Game Is Just A Gimmick
An exhibition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQK-eTQWybI
The Major League Baseball All Star Game started off as a gimmick and remains a gimmick 86 years after the first game was...
