The Next Ted Williams is Not in a Test Tube - Bring Back the Days of Baseball Mysticism
on Nov 18, 2009 in Baseball Bud Selig Commissioner Commissioner Bud Selig MLB MiLB Sports Business Sports Journalism Steroids baseball minor league baseball Where is the next Ted Williams, the next guy who can hit a ball at .400 or better for a season? Nowhere in sight.  Professional baseball has swapped intuition for science over the last forty years. It has been an unqualified failure. Name the .

John Henry Williams - Elegy for a Lightweight - Opinion by MLN Sr. Editor Brian Ross
on Oct 3, 2009 in Baseball Bobby Jo Ferell Williams Claudia Williams John Henry Williams SI Sports Illustrated Sports Journalism Ted Williams Tom Verducci undefined With the Larry Johnson kiss-and-tell book about Alcor Life Extension Labs about to reignite the controversy over Ted Williams final wishes, we take a look back at how we set the record about John Henry Williams straight.  This Opinion piece "An...

Is Sports Illustrated Out to Get John Henry Williams? - An MLN Best of... Celebration
on Oct 3, 2009 in Baseball Sports Journalism With the Larry Johnson kiss-and-tell book about Alcor Life Extension Labs coming out shortly, the pot is being stirred again about Ted Williams frozen head, and its treatment. Forget that Mr. Johnson ran the lab, and could have cleaned up the very th...

Manny Ramirez 'Rehab' Road Reeks of Rotting Righteousness of Frivolous Fans
on Jun 28, 2009 in Baseball Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers Manny Ramirez PES Sports Business Steroids MAJOR BLOGS - 06.28.09 - OPINION - I really do not want to hear ANYONE from the cushy private boxes to the bleachers complain about steroid use in the professional game of baseball anymore. Minor league fans have just affirmed what the owners of bas...

Honoring the Living in Baseball
on May 24, 2009 in Baseball MLB Sports Sports Business baseball mln mln sports sports business MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - 05.24.09 - I was editing the terrific piece on Friday about the passing of Nick Adenhart (See: "The Guy Everyone Wanted to Be Around," SZ, 05.24.09), when it occurred to me that while we mourn the dead, we are not...

Bakersfield Jam Shuttering is Black Eye for Commissioner Stern and NBA
on May 2, 2009 in Basketball D-League NBA NBA D-League Sports Sports Business Sports Journalism basketball MAJORBLOGS.net - 05.02.09 -Minor league teams come and go, but for NBA D-League, back-stopped by the full-faith and credibility of the National Basketball Association, the news Thursday from the Bakersfield Jam, affiliate of the Golden State Warriors...

La Mort du MLB (The Death of Major League Baseball): Is MiLB the Heir-Apparent?
on Apr 26, 2009 in Baseball MLB MiLB Sports Business baseball business sports business MAJORBLOGS.net - OPINION - 04.26.09 - The unthinkable has happened. Major League Baseball fans have actually said "Enough!" with the one voice that truly can put the fear of God into MLB Owners: Their wallets. As the New York Times reported...

World Baseball Classic 2009: Is the WBC a World Showcase or Steroids Whitewash?
on Mar 18, 2009 in Baseball IOC MLB Olympics Sports Business Steroids WBC World Baseball Classic World Baseball Classic 2009 baseball MAJORBLOGS.NET - 03.18.09 -  The pseudo-Olympic baseball competition of the World Baseball Class (WBC) is under way. We do not cover it. Here is why. The WBC is a big coat of whitewash over the disgrace of...

The McSorley Rule - Does Fighting Have a Place in Minor League Hockey?
on Feb 8, 2009 in Hockey Sports Business MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Last month, we had a pair of incidents, a death in the amateur senior ranks, and a convulsive fit in the American Hockey League (AHL) after fights broke out, which have prompted us to yet again revisit the McSorley...

BIRCO - Find Out What It Means to Me (Opinion)
on Dec 21, 2008 in Baseball Sports Business MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - 12.19.08 - OPINION - I was asked several times at the Baseball Winter Meetings what I thought about BIRCO, the Baseball Internet Rights Company, which I did a story about earlier this year for SZ ("Keep Your Ball on...