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September 21, 2023
The Supreme Court May Overturn the Error That Made Major League Baseball Rich
A pair of minor league clubs are asking the court to reverse the league’s lucrative 101-year-old antitrust exemption.
June 29, 2023
A Billionaire Baseball Owner Failed to Extort Oakland, So He’s Scamming Nevada Instead
John Fisher, an heir to the Gap fortune, is being handed hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to screw over A’s fans by moving his team to Las Vegas.
December 14, 2020
The Year That Killed the Native Mascot
If there is a silver lining to 2020, it’s the reminder that even the toughest fights in Indian Country can have a happy ending.
July 23, 2020
The Infernal Logic of Professional Sports in a Pandemic
Plutocratic interests and the coronavirus crisis have made “Value Over Replacement Human” baseball’s hottest new statistic.
May 20, 2020
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Is Baseball Safe?
Just because we may get a baseball season doesn’t mean we deserve one.
September 22, 2016
Fox’s Pitch Is Not Pure Fiction
Recalling the three black women who gender-integrated the Negro Leagues.
April 4, 2016
This is the scene outside the Milwaukee Brewers’ ballpark on baseball’s opening day.
March 28, 2016
We should let animals add a new twist to our national pastime.
August 17, 2015
Stop Burdening LGBT Athletes By Demanding Greatness
An ESPN panelist says Brewers minor leaguer David Denson, who came out on Saturday, "better be great" if he wants to make a difference
April 21, 2015
The Future of Binge TV Belongs to America's Oldest Sport
August 25, 2013
A Film Critic Ponders Baseball's Instant-Replay Cameras
The surveillance state comes to the ballpark
November 13, 2012
Why Is the NFL’s Trade Deadline So Boring?
October 26, 2012
Will We Miss David Stern’s Heavy Hands?
October 15, 2012
Why the Nationals’ Playoff Loss Was the Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Washington Sports
April 5, 2012
Opening Day 2012: Why We Love Beanballs
March 31, 2012
Why Baseball is the Best—And Least Exploitative—American Sport
August 6, 2010
Trust The Medicare Trustees
August 5, 2010
The Voice Of The Senate Institutionalist
July 16, 2010
Arizona’s Long Hot Summer
July 2, 2010
The Stupidest Man in America

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