3 Men Forged 2 Decades of Labor Peace
November 27, 2011 by Jon Pessah · 2 Comments
Sometime early in Bud Selig‘s celebration of baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement on Wednesday, he wondered if the two sides had needed to go through the pain of 1994 in order to achieve the peaceful — and very profitable — coexistence they enjoy today. It was almost certainly meant as a rhetorical question. Selig answered […]
Clearing The Bases
July 27, 2011 by George Kurtz · Leave a Comment
Unless you’re not all that big a baseball fan, you know the non-waiver trade deadline is this Sunday at 4PM. It’s a major league team’s last chance to fix a problem on their roster before players must pass through waivers in order to be traded. Trades seem to be harder to work out in this […]
Talk about a Gathering!
January 27, 2011 by Sam Miller · Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen the photo. It’s the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Opening Day in 1939. Naturally, “The Sultan of Swat” sits in the center. Nine men, who may or may not have been Ruth’s equals but were without question baseball immortality, surround “The Babe.” “A Great Day in Cooperstown“ begins with this photo. My, oh […]
