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A bit behind on this, but the new MLS team in Seattle (The Sounders) have sold more season tickets (per game) than the Mariners. Here …
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A bit behind on this, but the new MLS team in Seattle (The Sounders) have sold more season tickets (per game) than the Mariners. Here …
While many pundits expound on the Mets’ phenomenal collapse and the Phillies’ race to the top of the NL East, few had paid much attention …
Guest Post by John Budd Previous research on Major League Baseball’s final-offer salary arbitration process has found that players who lost in arbitration have subsequent …
Warning: Readers who think about sports rules and practices solely as “that’s the way it has been so that’s the way it should be” probably …
This week’s issue of the Sports Business Journal has an interesting article about ticket sales for MLB and the relationship of the league to Stub …
Jeffrey Beckmann at BleacherReport presents a slideshow of the “50 Best Teams” not to win a World Series. Of the teams on this side of …
A TSE reader, Jeff Baird, steered my attention toward an Economist article on Draft Dodgers No More: Can The Dominican Republic Avoid Puerto Rico’s Fate? …
In a recent TSE post, Brian writes: The league’s testing procedure (“analytic evidence”) uncovered only 13 users from 2009 to the present. Yet, now there …
The Kansas City Royals have raised ticket prices for next season by 15%. This announcement comes on the heels of another not-so stellar season. It …
This just in: remember that image of baseball front office types as slow-witted dinosaurs who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth …
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