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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: MLB, Business, Operational Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Games, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Nicole Solis, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Business Model, BNET Feature
Articles 2008-07-14
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: Team management, Operational accounting, David Jacobson, MLB, commissioner, baseball, antitrust law, exemption, antitrust, team, America, organizational structure, agreement, pension plan, revenue, online media, game, hiring, radio, Adobe PDF, payment, TV, sales
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: David Jacobson, ballpark, stadium, MLB, amenity, Business 2.0, streaming video, team, inflation, revenue, game, video, sales
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: Team management, Operational accounting, payroll solutions, David Jacobson, MLB, Boston Red Sox, salary, Fortune 1000, revenue, team, payroll, talent, career, analysis
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...
Articles 2008-07-14
MLB.TV: How Not to Handle Video Online
Take a look at next-generation video sites like Hulu and Joost. It's encouraging to see engineers raising the bar for the experience of watching television online. Then there is that tireless standard bearer for lowering the bar: MLB.TV. The good news for MLB.com's streaming coverage of games...
Tags: MLB, Video, Corporate Communications, Games, Team Management, Blogging, Marketing, Personal Technology, Management, Internet, Kevin Kelleher
Blog posts 2008-04-03
MLB.TV: How Not to Handle Video Online
Take a look at next-generation video sites like Hulu and Joost. It's encouraging to see engineers raising the bar for the experience of watching television online. Then there is that tireless standard bearer for lowering the bar: MLB.TV. The good news for MLB.com's streaming coverage of games...
Tags: Corporate communications, Team management, Blogging, Games, video, Kevin Kelleher, MLB.TV
Blog posts 2008-04-03
Television and the Internet
As you know, there's plenty of video on the Web. You can go to YouTube and see almost anything you want, most of it dreadful but some of it pretty good. You can also post your own videos on YouTube and you can vote...
Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network2, TV, YouTube Inc., network, Internet
Blog posts 2007-02-16
An All-Star Team
Because Foley & Lardner serves as outside counsel to Major League Baseball MLB, the assumption might be that the firm's lead counsel, Mary Kay Braza, is a pinch hitter called on to get the key hit when MLB needs help but otherwise sits on the bench. While that might be...
Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., MLB, team
White papers 2003-10-27
Design and Flight Test Results for Micro-Sized Fixed-Wing and VTOL Aircraft
There has been recent interest in unmanned air vehicles with a largest linear dimension no greater than 6 inches. Micro sized air vehicles mAV are intended to operate close to a point of interest without detection and provide surveillance teams with critical information in life threatening situations that is currently...
Tags: MLB, team
White papers 2003-10-03
Major League Baseball Player Contracts: An Investigation of the Empirical Properties of Real Options
This paper studies the contracts negotiated between professional baseball players and teams to investigate the use of real options in a commercial setting. Baseball contracts feature options in diverse forms, and we find that these options have significant effects on player compensation. As predicted by theory, players receive higher guaranteed...
Tags: Benefits, Team management, New York Stock Exchange, compensation, salary, team, theory
White papers 2001-09-01
Design of Micro Air Vehicles and Flight Test Validation
Mission capable Micro Air Vehicles MAVs must be convenient to operate, have a small system size and weight, be able to operate in high winds, and deliver high quality image data. The design of these aircraft requires an integrated technique which accounts for overall mission performance of the MAV system....
Tags: Aerospace & Defense, MLB, aircraft, optimization, technique
White papers 2000-05-11

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Tootie Hits Grand Slam at MLB All Star Game Event in New York City
The Tootie Pie Company, Inc. (OTCBB: TOOT), apremium baker and seller of high-quality, handmade pies; is pleased toannounce that our pies were the featured dessert at the Sharp ElectronicsAll Star Party for the Major League Baseball All Star Game held at YankeeStadium in New York City last night. Tootie's Award...
Articles 2008-07-16
Authenticators OK game's genuine articles
NEW YORK -- As Josh Hamilton and friends were racking up tape-measure homers around Yankee Stadium in the Home Run Derby on Monday night, three men were standing behind a protective screen in short center field doing a different kind of accounting. They were Major League Baseball authenticators,...
Articles 2008-07-16
MLB teams have little interest in disgraced slugger Bonds
NEW YORK AFP — Major League Baseball clubs are showing little interest in signing disgraced home-run king Barry Bonds, agent Jeff Borris said on Monday. "I am not optimistic any team will approach me about Barry before the (July 31) trading deadline," Borris said. Speaking from...
Articles 2008-07-15
Baseball Strategy and Marketing Insights Converge at Upcoming CMO Summit
What does MLB player recruitment have to do withdata-driven marketing improvement? A lot, according to Paul DePodesta, theformer GM of the L.A. Dodgers and now Special Assistant for BaseballOperations for the San Diego Padres. Profiled in the book "Moneyball" andcelebrated as a baseball operations wunderkind, DePodesta will keynoteAberdeen's (NYSE: HHS)...
Articles 2008-07-15
Young's sacrifice ends marathon MLB all-star contest
NEW YORK AFP — Michael Young drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 15th inning, giving the American League a 4-3 win over the National League and capping the longest all-star game in history. Young's hit to right field scored Justin Morneau in the...
Articles 2008-07-15
All-Star Game takes hoopla as seriously as baseball classic
NEW YORK -- Fans and advertisers are singing, "Take me out to the All-Star Game." For the annual midseason matchup tonight of American League and National League stars, Fox has gotten record TV ad prices, Major League Baseball MLB sponsors have spent millions on promotions and fans are...
Articles 2008-07-15
Hop-on, Inc. Introduces World's First Disposable Phone at the MLB All-Star Game
NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hop-on, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HPNN) today announced that it will be introducing the world's first disposable phone during Major League Baseball's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The Hop-on executive team, including Peter Michaels, President, will be on hand today to personally...
Articles 2008-07-15
Major League Baseball Hits A Home Run with the "Greatest Public Event Recycling Program" in New York City's History
Collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Sims Metal Management Results in Approximately 150,000 Containers Being Collected NEW YORK -- Collaborating with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Sims Metal Management, Major League Baseball sent more than a hundred Green Team volunteers through Central Park all day...
Articles 2008-07-14
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