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More than 73 million baseball fans attended Major League Baseball games in 2015. Large cities in the United States of America that host baseball teams offer national media and fan bases that generate multi-billion dollar revenues. The average cost of attending a MLB game, for a family of four, is over $200. MLB fans have many choices in concession food and drinks. Detroit Tigers owner Mike Illitch of Little Caesers Pizza owns his own concessions company so don 't expect a…

professional, and lastly is by becoming more popular. Babe Ruth was the most widely known athlete in the 1920s era. His real name was George Herman Ruth Jr, it was the same as his father’s name. He is the only player with that last name in major league history. When he was younger he lived on the site of what is now Oriole Park at Camden Yards, above one of his father’s string of saloons. This is where he met his mentor, Brother Matthias.…

rest to his mother. In 1986 Sosa came to Sarasota, Florida, United States, and he made his professional debut in minor league team in the Gulf Coast League. After showing his skills on the field Sosa was traded to the Chicago White Sox. In his first season he hit 15 home runs and stole 32 bases, posting a batting average of .233. He also became the only player in the American League to reach double digits in doubles, triples, home runs, and stolen bases. Sosa second season with the White Soxs…

The Los Angeles Dodgers is a professional baseball team that is a part of the Major League Baseball (MLB). The team is originally from Brooklyn, New York, and the name “dodgers” originated from people who were trying to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn (Los Angeles Dodgers: Timeline). When the Brooklyn Dodgers came under new ownership of Walter O’Malley, he decided to move the team to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los…

After the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, several teams in the Major Leagues are looking for a better way to develop their rosters similar to the 2016 Champions. The key in doing so starts with changes in the front office and then the team manager. Those two positions need to be filled before you can even think about what players you need to work the system. One of the teams that are looking to develop a roster similar to the Cubs is the Atlanta Braves. The Braves finished their 2016…

Last year, the NL Central was probably deepest division in the National League as three prominent teams battled for the division crown. The St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs all had a chance to win the division down the stretch. However, after the Cardinals won the division by two games (100-62), the Pirates (98-64) and Cubs (97-65) secured both spots in the National League Wild Card Game, where the two division foes met for a chance to face St. Louis in the NLDS. 

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National football and basketball leagues are currently not open for expansion, which means that the teams would have to be purchased from the cities they reside in. A capable arena or stadium would need to already exist or be constructed to support these teams. Currently, Birmingham does not have an open stadium capable of hosting an NFL team. However, the BJCC could support an ice hockey franchise and possibly a basketball franchise. The national hockey and soccer leagues are open for…

baseball in the minor leagues and then one day being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma; a type of cancer. Well, this is what life was like for Anthony Rizzo. Rizzo is a three-time All-Star who helped lead the Cubs to the 2016 World Series (Florida shooting: Cubs' Anthony Rizzo sends support to his high school). Anthony Rizzo grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Right out of high school he got drafted onto the Salem Red Sox minor league team. He…

Introduction Money rules in Major League Baseball. The more money a team has, the more likely they are to do better during their season. That is why teams such as the Dodgers, Yankees, and Giants don’t have much difficulty building a strong team. With such a high salary cap, they have the ability to sign the best players. With better players, that leads to better development as well as an easier way to attract better free agents. Due to that, very rarely do teams with low salary caps like the…

his career, this legacy was later tarnished when it was found that he had bet on Major League baseball games while he been a player and a manager. Since this broke one of Major League Baseball's rules, Rose was banned from both…