Tag: baseball
For over a century, baseball’s scouts have been the backbone of...
H. James Gilmore, Flagler College and Tracy Halcomb, Flagler College
Former MLB executive Pat Gillick won three World Series...
MLB home run counts are rising – and global warming is...
Christopher W. Callahan, Dartmouth College and Justin S. Mankin, Dartmouth College
Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments...
Against baseball’s new pitch clock
Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley
Baseball moves very fast. That’s how it seems to me, anyway.
Against baseball’s new pitch clock
Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley
Baseball moves very fast. That’s how it seems to me, anyway.
MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement fails to address players’ biggest grievances
Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball,”...
MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement fails to address players’ biggest grievances
Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball,”...
How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was...
Sticky baseballs: Explaining the physics of the latest scandal in Major...
John Eric Goff, University of Lynchburg
Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying...