MLB attendance is up 4.2 percent this season over last, but there are some surprising laggards at the box office this season — though it doesn’t seem to matter whether a team wins or loses. The convention wisdom on the MLB level is that it matters at the box office whether a team is winning […]
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One more anniversary to note: the roots of Ball Four
In a year full of notable anniversaries — Fenway Park, Oriole Park, Tiger Stadium — one more to celebrate: fifty years ago, Jim Bouton joined the New York Yankees, setting the stage for Ball Four. It’s safe to say Ball Four completely changed the way baseball books were written, raising the genre past hagiography to […]
Coca-Cola Field turns 25 this season
It was the ballpark that truly opened the retro era in ballpark, presaging Oriole Park by five years: Coca-Cola Field, home of the Buffalo Bisons (Class AAA; International League), turns 25 this season. Oriole Park will get a lot of press this season, marking its 20th anniversary and rightly being hailed as the first retro […]