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 […]

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Dickey, Wakefield, and the Not-So-Lost-But-Sorta-Lost Art of the Knuckleball

August 19, 2010 by Aaron Somers · 2 Comments

With roughly six weeks remaining in the 2010 season there are a number of bloggers, writers, and analysts that have started looking ahead to the offseason. While the writing itself hasnâ€™t actually begun yet, Iâ€™ll admit Iâ€™ve started thinking ahead to the format I hope to encapsulate my year-end thoughts within. Of course, the seasonâ€™s […]

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