Find out which are the best ballplayers and which are the best for the buck.
Increased competition from foreign-born players has not resulted in lower salaries for native ballplayers.
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There's a self-evident truth about ballplayers with mustaches: Ballplayers with mustaches love talking about mustaches.
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And it's unfortunate, because I think there are a lot of ballplayers who played it straight.
Baseball Performance Center, located near Wheeler's suburban Atlanta home, is a sort of fitness boot camp for ballplayers.
This exaggerated interest is partly owing to the relative paucity of Jewish ballplayers who made it to the majors.
It is about ballplayers who must shower, shave and dress in locker rooms about as roomy as a Kardashian's closet.
He has always been the most stoic of ballplayers, never crushed by bad breaks or down about even the toughest losses.
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The obstruction of justice conviction stemmed from his testimony to a grand jury looking into illegal steroid use by professional ballplayers.
Statistically he resembles Johnny Mize and Chuck Klein, both deserving hall-of-famers but not the sort of ballplayers who get their biographies written.
Is there something a bit parochial and chauvinistic but also unconsciously condescending in this interest on the part of Jews in Jewish ballplayers?
Unlike the tasks accomplished by secretaries or vice presidents for media relations, the records of ballplayers are captured in incredible detail and made public (at usatoday.com, for instance).
That may be a big part of it, but they also become comfortable seeing how things work in the big leagues, and being around great ballplayers and celebrities.
Statistical accomplishments and records do not only apply to ballplayers.
In 2007, Mr. Clemens's last year in the majors, the Mitchell Report to Major League Baseball identified dozens of past and current ballplayers who had allegedly used performance-enhancing drugs.
If you look at a list of the best ballplayers in a given season, they'll invariably be spry youngsters, and it's natural to extrapolate that to the team level.
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Forming more teams in large markets would chop down the television revenue of now-dominant teams such as the New York Yankees , making it harder for them to buy the best ballplayers.
San Jose Giants games may be a blast for fans, but the High-A minor league is a brutal proving ground for young ballplayers who hope to play for the San Francisco Giants someday.
Since ballplayers are not pure commodities--service time counts as much as past performance in the league's salary structure--finding those solid contributors for little money can be the difference between a decent team and a champion.
We all kid ourselves that during March Madness, the courts are loaded with mostly African American ballplayers, yet when the College World Series tips off in May, you will see mostly whites on the baseball diamond.
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