Recently, they have combined to try to attract major-league baseball clubs for spring training.
He encouraged Jackie Robinson, when Robinson, under extreme pressure, broke the color line in major-league baseball that same year.
Rice, the 31-year old rookie, could finally call himself a major-league baseball player.
Hank Greenberg's place on this all-time team, for which he has no rivals in major-league baseball, would be that of designated mensch.
Perhaps a dozen Jews are playing major-league baseball at present, the best among them being Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee Brewers' star left fielder.
Many major-league baseball critics argue that the lack of a hard salary cap eliminates roughly half of the 30 teams from winning the World Series.
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In major-league baseball, each team negotiates its own local television contract.
In recent years, the city has been guiding growth to grittier neighborhoods with more capacity, such as those near Union Station and toward the Nationals' major-league baseball stadium south of the Capitol.
And even if a sweet enough east-coast offer made him relent, New York's two existing major-league baseball teams, the Yankees (last season's World Series champions) and the Mets, could block any deal.
The Clemens verdict marks the end of a series of federal investigations into steroid use among major-league baseball players, which was a priority of President George W. Bush, a former part-owner of baseball's Texas Rangers.
There has been plenty of hand-wringing since Major League Baseball announced the addition of another wild-card team from each league, expanding its playoffs to 10 from eight.
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We checked records back to the earliest days of the major sports leagues--1901 in Major League Baseball, 1947 in the NBA and 1920 for the NFL. We made an exception for hockey, limiting the study back to 1967, after the NHL grew past six teams.
Starting in the mid-1990s, a long lineup of batmakers new to the game--from carpenters to Amish craftsmen--got approval from Major League Baseball, and began stealing away stars and the more lucrative minor-league and amateur markets.
It is inhabited by one second class financial citizen of major league baseball- the Texas Rangers.
Xbox has ESPN, every regular-season Major League Baseball game and Ultimate Fighting.
According to Doubleday, he was laboring under a conflict of interest since he is also a consultant to Major League Baseball--that is, to the other owners.
In the just-released list from Major League Baseball of bestselling jerseys, 9 of the top-10 players are from teams with the highest fan loyalty, showing up in the top six in our 2011 Brand Keys Sports Loyalty Index.
On Friday, two San Francisco, California, officials wrote a three-page letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to ask that the 2011 All-Star Game be moved from Phoenix, Arizona, if the law is not repealed.
While Cuba and the Dominican Republic are of similar size and baseball pedigree, an analysis from the National Foundation for American Policy found there were only four Cuban baseball players on the 40-man rosters of Major League baseball teams in 2006, compared to 81 players from the Dominican Republic.
The award-winning online multiplayer game allows the Major League Baseball star to interact anonymously--but still on a personal level--with human beings he wouldn't otherwise know.
After the disastrous 1994--95 baseball strike Major League Baseball collectively averted its eyes from the players' growing drug use because bulked-up bodies meant more home runs.
The 82nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is where the game's high-priced big names go to mingle with their peers, hang with their agents and perhaps compare their latest endorsement deals and car purchases.
Tim Brosnan, an executive vice-president for Major League Baseball, said the recent gloomy studies have prompted the league to order up its own research, which is ongoing, and to review the league's efforts to grow the game.
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He had hip surgery in January that is expected to keep him out of action until after the All-Star break, and now A-Rod is being investigated by Major League Baseball regarding allegations that he received PEDs from a Florida anti-aging clinic.
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In less than a decade, the group has raised eighteen million dollars, including a ten-million-dollar commitment from Major League Baseball.
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on Thursday will release his long-awaited report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.
Last year, the Mets were forced into the embarrassing position of having to borrow twenty-five million from Major League Baseball, to tide them over for the year.
Whether you believe Jose Canseco or the Mitchell Report, it would appear that between 10-50% of Major League Baseball players used steroids during this tainted era of the game.
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The film follows Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, as he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and highlights the bond that formed between Robinson and Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey.
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