MLB Rivalries: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs
Baseball has seen so much action over the years, and alongside hockey, football, and basketball, it is one of the most loved sports in the United States. Just like people bet their hard earned money on the Super Bowl, they spend their hard earned money betting on the World Series odds. But, what makes the […]
The Steroid Era: A Fan’s Lament
I’ve been a baseball fan, and a Giants fan for over thirty years. I’ve seen good teams, average teams and bad teams. I’ve seen different styles of play within baseball over the course of my time being a baseball fan. I have mixed feelings about the steroid era, because one of the biggest stars, Barry […]
DRSEA Opening Day
DRSEA INFORMER Volume VI, Issue 1: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy welcomed its inaugural students in January in the city that has produced many of the Dominican Republic’s most famous baseball stars. “The dream has become reality,” said Harold Mendez, co-founder of the DRSEA, whose mission […]
A Review: Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
There’s more to sabermetrics than FIP,WARP, and BABIP. These statistics that have been filtering into the baseball lexicon over the past decade are really just tools that allow fans and serious students of the game to answer questions and settle debates. Each new breakthrough introduces opportunities for further study. While Wins may be a stat […]
A Case for Larry Walker’s Induction into the Hall of Fame
This is the time of year when the Baseball Writers of America (BBWA) submit their final ballots for the players they think are deserving of induction into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Among the eligible nominees this year, Barry Larkin and Jeff Bagwell may have the best chance of being elected. But an equally […]
A New Series by Ken Burns: Baseball – The Tenth Inning
A FILM BY KEN BURNS AND LYNN NOVICK PICKING UP WHERE HIS EPIC 1994 DOCUMENTARY LEFT OFF, RENOWNED FILMMAKER KEN BURNS CONTINUES THE FASCINATING STORY OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL PASTIME New Documentary Debuts on DVD and Blu-ray October 5, 2010 Featuring Interviews with the Filmmakers, Additional Scenes and Outtakes HOLLYWOOD, CA – In 1994 the landmark […]
New Era In Baseball
DRSEA INFORMER Volume III, Issue 1: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Nueva Era En Béisbol (New Era In Baseball) by Charles Farrell The new year is starting with something that hasn’t happened in more than a quarter-century; a new union boss at the Major League Baseball Players Association. Michael Weiner has succeeded Don Fehr […]
Baseball Scores, But Game Suspended
A guest article by Charles S. Farrell from the DRSEA Informer Volume II, Issue 19: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association got a split decision recently when a U.S. federal court of appeals ruled that federal agents went too far in seizing urine samples, drug […]
The Curse of the American League
Image by Keith Allison via Flickr At this point, we have to begin to discuss the possibility of an official curse – for the third time in four years one of the American League’s elite homerun hitters has suffered a season ending injury in September, and for the second year in a row it may […]
Time For MLB To Play Hardball
ByCharles S. Farrell Volume II, Issue 16: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball recently held its annual midsummer celebration of the game of hardball and, as usual, Dominicans were well represented on the All Star teams selected as the best of the best. The numbers are testament to the contribution the Dominican […]
As the Cubs Roll Into August…
July turns to August and finds the Chicago Cubs still in the NL Central hunt. Nevertheless, they didn’t look like a contending team as the trading deadline neared, making a nominal move for minimal help which may actually hurt the team this season. Image by Getty Images via Daylife In a month in which Roy […]
INTERVIEW: Craig Calcaterra of Shysterball
Image via Wikipedia Here’s an interview done by Russ Smith of SpliceToday entitled, “Interview: Craig Calcaterra of Shysterball“. Russ was kind enough to allow up to repost this on Baseball Reflections today. As the MLB season reaches its halfway mark, Splice has once again consulted Shysterball‘s Craig Calcaterra, our favorite baseball blogger. Calcaterra, a lawyer […]
Big Papi Comes Up Big in June
Image via Wikipedia So now that David Ortiz has found his stroke again, all the murmurs will start. This will certainly mirror the talk that surrounded Jason Giambi a couple of years ago. You all remember, don’t you? Giambi admitted to doing performance-enhancing drugs before the 2004 season, and followed that up with an 80 […]
Another One Bites The Dust
Image by Getty Images via Daylife In yesterday’s New York Times, Michael S. Schmidt reported that “Sammy Sosa…is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year“. Sosa is now the second name to be leaked from that 2003 test […]
Book Review: Fair Ball by Bob Costas
Bob Costas is probably best known for his Olympic commentary over the years, but he has really been a renaissance man and announced everything from baseball to football in this country. Costas put out Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball in an attempt to tell baseball how it could fix its problems and become […]
The History of Advertising in MLB Bibiliography
Arcella, C. F. (1997). Major League Baseball’s Disempowered Commissioner: Judicial Ramifications of the 1994 Restructuring. Columbia Law Review, 97, 2420-2469. Butterworth, M. L. (2007). Race in “The Race”: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Heroic Constructions of Whiteness. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24, 228-244. Cuneo, A.Z. & Tomaselli, R. (2007). How will MLB market Bonds’ […]
The History of Advertising in Major League Baseball
Image via Wikipedia Part 1 of 2 Companies have been using their own workers to advertise their product, even if they are not celebrities, for some time now. A much publicized Tylenol advertisement came out just a few years ago in which Tylenol used their own workers to sell the product. This technique is also […]
