In 2005 I explored the "Yankee Premium, how much of the Yankee payroll reflected a revenue advantage relative to the rest of baseball and how much reflected the ability of ...

Spring training in Florida set an attendance record -- of sorts -- in 2010: From March 2nd through April 3rd, a total of 1,427,627 fans watched the 15 teams comprising ...

A Yahoo! Sports headline and associated summary regarding the Tour on Monday headline reads, Sastre Wins Doping-Scarred Tour de France. Setting aside moral philosophy, I wonder whether the Tour's (and ...

My wife and I recently visited the West Coast, affording me my first game at Dodger Stadium in 45 years.  While Brooklynites still despair the Dodgers exit from the East ...

Attendance at MLB games this past season was 6.9% lower than it had been the previous year. That is a HUGE drop. An intriguing question is, what happened? One possibility ...

The man that many consider the Cubs top prospect, slugging first baseman Anthony Rizzo, made his Cubs debut Tuesday against the Mets.  Prior to that, he had spent the entire ...

In his most recent post, Bill Simmons from ESPN Page 2 confesses Boredom with the Red Sox , laying the bulk of the blame on the length of MLB games, ...

President Obama is apparently going to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. But, you rightly say, what is the Sports Economics angle in this story? Judge Sotomayor was the ...

"Flag at Half Mast", by Ed DeCaria at The Hardball Times.  Very well done, for a truly great man.  

I am spending the weekend in the NYC area, so the New York Times is my local paper for the next couple of days. I came across an interesting tidbit ...

The newly competitive Rays of Major League Baseball are attempting to move from Tropicana Field - an outdated facility, to put it mildly - to the waterfront on Tampa Bay. ...

Don Coffin sends along two Chicago Trib links on the recent bonus-skimming scandal in MLB. Here's one that describes some of the alleged skimming involving Dominican players. Here's one on ...