Tag / mlb
-
![]()
Remembering Jackie Robinson: Racial Equality in Sports
BY BENJAMIN COMPALL If Jackie Robinson were alive today, I wonder how he would feel about the current racial state of sports. Surely, as the first African American professional baseball player, he would feel great pride in seeing how far things have come. As Americans, we love these “first-ever” narratives- and Robinson’s holds a particularly…
-
![]()
An Old Pastime Perseveres
BY BENJAMIN SZANTON As with global temperatures or the cost of college, a graph of TV viewership of the World Series presents a consistently ominous trend over the past 20 years. This year’s Series, in which the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals to win their third championship in five years, was no…
-
![]()
In Baseball We Trust
BY GRACE PORTELANCE Competitive markets and baseball are two things that are quintessentially American—though not everyone loves them, they occupy a huge cultural space in our society. However, these two cultural staples have historically been at odds – since the inception of anti-trust laws, baseball has enjoyed a strange and unique exemption. In fact, one…
