In a box seat just behind home plate, several fans watching the Arizona Diamondbacks battle it out in their series opener were asked to take it off. The fans, in prime viewing area, were wearing Los Angeles Dodgers gear. Their seats, $3,250-$3,500 box seats, are consistently shown in photos, videos, and any shots of the [...] Read More

[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of The Battle That Forged Modern [...] Read More

Those who study and follow the business side of sports are remembering the impact that Marvin Miller had on baseball and professional sports in general upon learning of his death earlier this week. Miller, the father of free agency in Major League Baseball, died on Nov. 27 at the age of 95. As the president [...] Read More

[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Transpacific Field of Dreams: How [...] Read More

The Miami Marlins either have a gigantic heart or a wise public relations department. Either way, the team’s otherwise meaningless game against the New York Mets Tuesday night has now become one of the must-see games of the season. When the two teams that are a combined 38 games below .500 square off in the [...] Read More

Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame announcer Marty Brennaman turned an off-the-cuff comment into an impressive lesson in fundraising. Brennaman shot off at the mouth that if the Reds won 10 games in a row, he would shave off his long, silver locks of hair. When Cincinnati did just that, the Reds’ radio play-by-play announcer not [...] Read More

  One in 18 Major League Baseball players in the history of the league have played in only one career game. That’s a fascinating statistic gleaned from an outstanding article about the nearly 1,000 “cup of coffee” players who have appeared in only one career MLB game. The article offers readers detailed accounts of the [...] Read More

I was recently asked by former colleague Aaron Geiger, the publisher of the literary blog but.if.and.that, to offer my perspective on some of my favorite African-American sports literature that was to be included in a compilation of African-American literature reviews for Black History Month. While I could have written extensively on the many books I’ve [...] Read More

Curtis Danburg, the Cleveland Indians’ senior director of communications with 16 years of experience with Cleveland’s Major League Baseball organization, shared his thoughts on how sport organizations should utilize social media during a Q&A session with Jim Kadlecek, associate professor and chair of the Department of Human Performance and Sport Business at the University of [...] Read More

[Braham Dabscheck is an industrial relations scholar, sports writer and enthusiast, and author of Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, published April 2011, by FiT. He has written extensively on many aspects of sport, and he continues with that tradition today by offering a review of Raceball: How the Major Leagues [...] Read More