After the Flood

Arn Tellem, 11.18.2009

Principal, Wasserman Media Group

In 1969, Curt Flood sued baseball for $1 million. He ultimately lost his case, but set in motion the legal battle that would topple the reserve clause, which bound a player for life to a particular team.

Moneyball: Dead, Alive, or on Life Support?

Daniel Adler, 11.17.2009

Co-President of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective

Considering the past eight seasons, this year was not particularly notable in terms of payroll predicting success.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your 2009 NL Manager of the Year, Mr. Jim Tracy

Ari Shapiro, 11.16.2009

Avid sports fan and author of The Cheap Seats blog.

Major League Baseball will announce its 2009 National League Manager of the Year on Wednesday. The only way Jim Tracy doesn't walk away with the award is if Clint Hurdle gets to cast all 32 votes.

Baseball's First Economist: Remembering Gerald Scully

J.C. Bradbury, 11.13.2009

Economist, Sabernomics.com

While it is hard to sympathize with millionaire players, it is important to understand that what players don't get goes to the owners, who are a much wealthier cohort.

A Cubs Boy, in the Shadow of the Yankees

Eric Klinenberg, 11.12.2009

I believed that my son might be the one we'd been waiting for, the guy who would turn the Cubs' luck around. Then something incredible happened. In 2007, his first full season, the Cubs made the playoffs.

Franchise Players

Dave Cameron, 11.12.2009

Writes about baseball for The Wall Street Journal and FanGraphs

Although the phrase "franchise player" is vague and could mean different things to different people, I was curious to find out how many I thought there were in baseball. So, let's take a look.

The Dodgers Year-In-Review

Ken Levine, 11.12.2009

Emmy-Winning Writer/Director/Producer, MLB Announcer

Next season will be here before you know it. Pitchers and catchers due in February. Manny Ramirez due in January.

Why Sports Matter

Eric Angevine, 11.11.2009

Editor, StormingTheFloor.net

Brought to a point, sports represent one of the ligaments that binds our society together.

The Mets Must Get Younger, Trade Beltran

Eric Trager, 11.12.2009

Writer, Ph.D. Student

Mets fans hope that the worst has passed. But if the Amazin's aim to turn things around in the coming decade, they must avoid repeating their two most baneful blunders from the previous one.

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman, 11.11.2009

Emmy Award-winning Sportscaster

At a soccer game in Australia, police were called to quell a disturbance among the fans. Nothing new in soccer. But some of the fans were wielding spears and axes.

No, I'm Not Bitter...Really: A Phillies Fan Laments

Jerry Waxman, 11.09.2009

When you are eight years old and your team is in the World Series you are in heaven.

Learning Leadership From the New York Yankees

Leslie Grossman, 11.09.2009

Cofounder, Women's Leadership Exchange, Author

I am obsessed with always looking at why and how people lead. Small businesses and corporations alike might consider looking at the success of the Yankees.

The World Series and Barry Sanders

Chris Campbell, 11.06.2009

Music and technology professional

The Yankees clearly have many, many great years ahead of them, and likely will for generations to come. But the game just doesn't feel the same anymore.

At Season's End, Withering Thoughts on November Baseball, Interleague Play and the Designated Hitter

Robert E. Murphy, 11.11.2009

Columnist, Life-Long Brooklynite

The temperature in New York is 48 degrees as I begin to write this, three hours before the start of the sixth game of the World Series at Yankee Stadi...

Yanks Spending Money -- The American Way

Bruce Tenenbaum, 11.05.2009

Writer, actor and radio host

Read the sports pages today and you'll find a whole lot of jealous Yankee haters moaning and whining about the Yankees' payroll. But business is the business of America.

Yankees Buy Another World Series Title

Av Sinensky, 11.05.2009

Attorney

Sources inside the Yankees revealed late last night that they will be holding a press conference to announce that they have acquired the rights to the Florida Marlins' 2003 World Series Championship.

Let the Public Own the Teams

Roy Ulrich, 11.04.2009

Roy Ulrich is a writer/researcher at Demos, a New York-based policy and advocacy organization.

If public ownership were allowed, owners would be barred from moving teams from small markets where they were profitable - like Green Bay - into larger markets.

Elections: The New National Pastime That Could Save Journalism

Glynnis MacNicol, 11.05.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

Apparently the future of journalism is politics. Can anyone remember this level of attention being paid for a handful of local elections? I can remember presidential elections that barely got this level of coverage.

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman, 11.02.2009

Emmy Award-winning Sportscaster

Here's the stunning part about the New York City Marathon: not that an American won, but that American runners dominated the field. Six of the top 10 finishers were American. What's going on here?

Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger, 11.04.2009

Looks like Doogie Howser, acts like Morley Safer

He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.

A Mets Fan's Lament

Eric Trager, 10.30.2009

Writer, Ph.D. Student

Mets fans are diametrically opposed to baseball's Goliath. We cannot root for the Yankees any more than Christians can cheer on Satan.