A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve – by Douglas J. Gladstone

Baseball is often synonymous with large salaries, multi-million contracts given to men for being able to play the game most of us at least dabbled in as children. Yet those with knowledge of the game’s history know that these large sums of money being given to players came about relatively recently, after the reserve clause […]

Going, Going, Gone: The Art of the Trade in Major League Baseball — by Fran Zimniuch

Now that we’re in July – what better event to look forward to and start reading about than the trading deadline. Few topics provide as much discussion as who we could trade for to make the team better. But as any general manager knows, it’s never as easy to make a trade as it to […]