Baseball and the Business of Sports

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the g... (2020)

Major League Baseball's embrace of the billion dollar American sports betting business. Will it sully the game? Or could it save it? (2021)

It’s not that MLB owners can’t afford to pay their minor leaguers a living wage. No, it’s just that they don’t want to. (2018)

The big issues you need to know about what’s happening in baseball. (2021)

The clash between data and intuition opens onto a larger debate, Louis Menand writes. (2019)