Does money buy championships in baseball? Well, last season, the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series with the 11th-highest payroll in the Major Leagues. The year before, the San Francisco Giants won it all with MLB’s ninth-highest payroll. Teams with deep pockets may have an advantage over smaller-market teams, but they’re not guaranteed anything. […]
Tag Archives: Major Leagues
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Hank Aaron is an American baseball player whose baseball career began in 1934 and ended in 1976. Hank Aaron was the first Negro American to play as a member of the Indianapolis Colts. In 1954 we moved to the major leagues where he played with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves. He spent two years with […]
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Baseball’s back, and so too are its critics. When it comes to Major League Baseball there is never a dearth of issues to talk about, or in this case blog about. Whether it’s the steroid controversy, the best prospects, the game’s greatest rivalries, or who should be traded – if you look hard enough you’re […]
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You may know that Jackie Robinson was the first African American major league baseball player who is credited with breaking the baseball color line. What you may not know is that he was also very active in the Civil Rights Movement. Jackie Robinson was born into poverty in 1919 during a Spanish flu and smallpox […]