Tag: Major League Baseball
How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
Imagine if, after watching the thrilling victory of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series...
Curious Kids: How does a curveball curve?
Jim Gregory, The Ohio State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
What’s really behind baseball’s home run surge?
Brian J. Love, University of Michigan and Michael L. Burns, University of Michigan
At the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Houston Astros pitcher Justin...
An analysis of nearly 4 million pitches shows just how many...
Mark T. Williams, Boston University
Baseball is back, and fans can anticipate another season of amazing catches, overpowering pitching, tape-measure home runs – and, yes,...
How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings turned baseball into a national...
Robert Wyss, University of Connecticut
This Major League Baseball season, fans may notice a patch on the players’ uniforms that reads “MLB 150.”
The logo commemorates...
The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline
Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh
Latinos will comprise about 30 percent of Major League Baseball rosters on Opening Day, in large part because MLB has...
Baseball’s biggest problem isn’t pace of play – it’s teams tanking
Adam Felder, University of Virginia
Major League Baseball is in trouble. But for all of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s concerns about pace of play, he’s looking...
Baseball teams need to protect fans from foul balls — and...
Nathaniel Grow, Indiana University
Tens of thousands of fans are gathering at Major League Baseball ballparks around the country for hot dogs, home runs, their...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
