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The Business of Baseball
Going to a baseball game is no longer just about watching the field — it's about the ballpark “experience.” SF Giants Chief Operating Officer Larry Baer says that stadium sales at AT&T Park account for up to 65 percent of overall team revenue. Baer shares his insights on the ever-changing,...
Tags: Team Management, Team, Retail, COO, SF Giants, Larry Baer, Stadium, Ballpark, Major League Baseball, Revenue, Sales, Management, Baseball, Sales Strategy
Videos 2008-05-07
Baseball Inc.: The Genesis
Forget the notion of baseball as America’s Pastime — it’s also one of America’s savviest businesses. From its origins amid scandal to its modern-day experiments in online media and revenue sharing, here’s how the business of Major League Baseball evolved. Organizational Structure After the 1919...
Tags: Revenue, Team, MLB, Baseball, Commissioner, Federal League, Baseball Economics, Revenue Sharing, Team Management, Management, David Jacobson, Major League Baseball, BNET Briefing, Labor, Salaries
Articles 2008-07-11
The Revenue Model: Why Baseball Is Booming
Baseball has found increasingly inventive ways to ramp up revenue — from actually reducing the number of seats in stadiums to selling streaming video of baseball games online — hitting record highs for five consecutive years. ...
Tags: Revenue, Team, MLB, Advertisement, Baseball, Ballpark, Stadium, Foreground, MLBAM, Team Management, Management, David Jacobson, Major League Baseball, Stadiums, Retail, Broadcast, BNET Feature, Business Model
Articles 2008-07-11
MLB's Labor and R&D Formula
MLB’s basic labor structure, in place for more than 30 years now, keeps players from charging the full amount their skills would draw on the open market for at least six years, allowing savvy teams to get young talent on the cheap. ...
Tags: Revenue, Team, MLB, R&D, Player, VORP, Team Management, Management, David Jacobson, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Business Model, BNET Feature, EBITDA
Articles 2008-07-11
MLB's Revenue-Sharing Formula
MLB’s revenue-sharing program prevents large-market teams, like the Yankees and Red Sox, from dominating the league every year. Here's how the program affects revenues, payroll, and the competitive balance of baseball. Identifying the Imbalance In 1999, a “blue ribbon” panel...
Tags: Revenue, Team, MLB, Payroll, Washington University, Team Management, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, David Jacobson, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Business Model, BNET Feature, Competition, Franchise
Articles 2008-07-14
The Great American Business Model
The great national pastime isn't just a game — it’s a hugely successful, $6 billion business that any company can learn a few tricks from. It’s tough to be a serious major league baseball fan these days without having at least a decent grasp of what the great American pastime...
Tags: Revenue, MLB, Operational Accounting, Finance, Nicole Solis, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Business Model, BNET Feature Package
Articles 2008-07-14

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220 MLB Signatures + One Chevy Tahoe Hood = a One-of-a-Kind Piece of Baseball Memorabilia
Unique Item to Be Auctioned at Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., in January For Youth Baseball Programs SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Take the hood of a Chevy Tahoe; bring it to six Major League Baseball parks; have more than 220 players sign it, including the biggest names...
Articles 2008-11-25
Darryl Strawberry goes to bat for nonprofits
In 1983, Darryl Strawberry was called up and given his big shot with the New York Mets. The 21-year-old didn't disappoint. Three years later, he was a key member of the 1986 World Series championship team, the last to win the title in Queens. He also played for the New...
Articles 2008-11-25
sports in brief
Baseball: Royals' Aviles earns Topps rookie all-star team Mike Aviles of the Kansas City Royals was named to the Topps 50th annual Major League rookie all-star team on Thursday. Aviles, who was recently named the 2008 Royals player of the year, finished tied for...
Articles 2008-11-21
sports in brief
Baseball: Royals' Aviles earns Topps rookie all-star team Mike Aviles of the Kansas City Royals was named to the Topps 50th annual Major League rookie all-star team on Thursday. Aviles, who was recently named the 2008 Royals player of the year, finished tied for...
Articles 2008-11-21
Yankees' Sabathia offer has a deadline
NEW YORK -- CC Sabathia will have a deadline to accept the New York Yankees' contract proposal. "We've made him an offer. It's not going to be there forever," Hal Steinbrenner said Thursday after he was approved as the team's new controlling owner during a meeting at...
Articles 2008-11-21
Mariners hire Wakamatsu
SEATTLE -- Don Wakamatsu is proud to be the first Asian-American manager in major league history. He's also keenly aware of what his grandparents endured, generations before he took over the Seattle Mariners. During World War II, the United States government moved his Japanese ancestors across the...
Articles 2008-11-20
Girl pitches up in male baseball league
JAPAN'S ALL-MALE professional baseball league is to have its first female player after a 16-year-old high school student was recruited by a minor league team. Eri Yoshida will play for Kobe 9 Cruise as part of a new four- team league in western Japan. "I never dreamed...
Articles 2008-11-20
MLB.com Offseason Package Delivers Live Baseball To Fans This Winter
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, today announced the launch of its exclusive offseason subscription package with the live streaming of the championship game from Major League Baseball's prestigious prospect development league, the Arizona Fall League, on Saturday, November 22 at...
Articles 2008-11-20
MLB Network to Launch via the Intelsat System
PEMBROKE, Bermuda -- Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced that MLB Network - the new 24-hour cable network devoted to Major League Baseball and other baseball programming - has signed a multi-year contract for capacity on Intelsat's Galaxy 17 satellite, a leading cable distribution platform...
Articles 2008-11-20
Gamescampus.com and MLB Advanced Media Sign Licensing Agreement for a Free Online Baseball Game
MLB Dugout Heroes Will Include MLB Licensing With All Major League Clubs and Ballparks SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose-based online game publisher, GamesCampus (www.gamescampus.com, run by OnNet USA), announced today that it has signed an online interactive licensing agreement with MLB Advanced Media, LP MLBAM, the interactive...
Articles 2008-11-18
MLB.com Selects the Adobe Flash Platform
SAN FRANCISCO -- MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a two-year agreement in which MLB.com has selected the Adobe[R] Flash[R] Platform to deliver all of its live and on-demand video offerings beginning in 2009. In addition, MLB.com will provide a downloadable...
Articles 2008-11-17
Indians' Lee wins Cy Young
Cliff Lee went from the minor leagues to the pinnacle of pitching in one fantastic year. Now, he's eager to repeat his award-winning performance. Lee took the American League Cy Young Award in a runaway Thursday, capping a dominant comeback season that made him the second consecutive...
Articles 2008-11-14
Smithtown funeral home lets fans of pop culture can take their
John Vigliante is an advocate of people expressing themselves. Even when they're dead. If your passion is to live and uh, die with the Mets or Yankees, Vigliante will put you in a custom-made casket authorized by Major League Baseball, bearing the colors - and in the...
Articles 2008-11-13
MLB.com Releases Updated Version of Popular 'At Bat' Application on Apple App Store
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, today announced its latest version of MLB.com At Bat, a dynamic application developed exclusively for iPhoneTM and iPodR touch, is available on the Apple App Store. The launch is especially timed as baseball fans turn...
Articles 2008-11-13
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