You must really love baseball to play in the independent Pecos League, where players receive $50 a week and some teams draw as little as 150 fans a game. Now, most of us in the baseball world remember a time when we were doing it for the love of the game, whether it was as […]
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McCourt’s profit on Dodgers ownership: a cool billion
After the dust settles on the $2-billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium, it looks like Frank McCourt could walk away from the deal with a cool billion-dollar profit. The math is pretty simple. Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC is paying $1.6 billion for the franchise and the ballpark and paying $400 million […]
San Rafael ballpark proposal scaled back to 800-seat facility
We’re totally mystified by this: a proposed lease for San Rafael‘s Albert Field calls for an 800-seat facility with free parking and temporary concessions for a independent North American League team. Where are the profits? The proposal, presented last night to the San Rafael City Council by Centerfield Partners, calls for minimal changes to the […]
Commissioner: Reds should cover ballpark debt with their billions in profits
Since the Cincinnati Reds are generating billions — billions! — of profits from Great American Ball Park, it’s about time the team steps up to cover debt service on the facility, instead of taxpayers, according to a Hamilton County Commissioner. Of course, the owners of the Reds aren’t making billions off the operations of the […]