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The Shohei Ohtani baseball card market is thriving

by Janet Nguyen
Nov 1, 2024
Ohtani baseball cards can command hundreds of thousands of dollars. One recently sold for a record $336,000.
Shohei Ohtani capped off his first season with the Dodgers with a World Series win.
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How much does it cost to go to the World Series? 

by Janet Nguyen
Oct 29, 2024
At one point, tickets for tonight’s game were priced at an average of $2,400 on SeatGeek. Now they’re about half that amount.
The Dodgers' Freddie Freeman knocks a two-run homer against the Yankees early in Game 3 of the 2024 World Series.
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The RSN is dying. What's next for sports broadcasting?

by Devlin Epding
Sep 9, 2024
A new deal between Comcast and Diamond Sports Group isn’t enough to keep teams from pursuing new streaming alternatives.
Baseball broadcast booths have been in limbo with ongoing broadcast disputes with RSNs.
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Shohei Ohtani's star power lures Japanese tourists to Los Angeles

by Josie Huang
Jun 20, 2024
Fans of the Dodgers phenom are coming by the thousands, despite the weak yen.
Ohtani has drawn Japanese visitors to LA's Little Tokyo neighborhood, largely because it's not far from Dodger Stadium.
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Some baseball fans can no longer catch the game on their cable provider

by Stephanie Hughes
May 2, 2024
Comcast was unable to reach a deal this week on carriage with the owner of 18 regional sports networks.
If you’re a Comcast subscriber, you may need to turn on the radio or head to your local sports bar to tune in to MLB games.
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What happened after baseball integrated

by Ellen Rolfes
Apr 30, 2024
When the Negro Leagues disbanded, there were winners and losers.
The Newark Eagles won the Negro World Series in 1946. Two years later, the team was sold and relocated to Houston and then to New Orleans. The team folded in 1951.
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The team owner who fought for civil rights

by Catherine Orihuela
Apr 23, 2024
Effa Manley, owner of the Newark Eagles, firmly believed her team’s success was tied to the ongoing struggle for justice in her community.
Effa Manley mixed business and activism as co-owner of the Newark Eagles, a Negro National League team.
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Negro Leagues barnstorming brought baseball to new places

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 23, 2024
It's just one of the lasting economic legacies of the professional baseball played in the Negro Leagues in the 20th century.
Teams that played in the Negro Leagues often had no choice but to hit the road and play games all over. They relied on this practice, known as barnstorming, to keep the money coming in. Pictured above: The Newark Eagles in a dugout in 1936.
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How baseball's Negro Leagues became successful business enterprises

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 17, 2024
"It was sailing against the tide of oppression," Negro Leagues Baseball Museum co-founder Larry Lester says.
Andrew "Rube" Foster founded the Chicago American Giants, pictured here in 1941. Foster organized the Negro National League, the first league for Black baseball players that survived a whole season.
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At-will employment and creative destruction

by David Brancaccio
Apr 16, 2024
David Brancaccio’s economic lessons from “The League.”
Jackie Robinson in the 1950s.
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