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While baseball has always been filled with very bizarre and arbitrary rules, thank goodness some of them have changed. Take these five rules for example.
Although ticket prices have increased over the last few decades, some sporting events are still affordable. The following, however, do not fit this category. Here are some of the most expensive events in recent sports history
Many female athletes have paved the way for future women sports stars. Here are seven such powerful leaders.
While U.S. expansion teams often struggle for several years before finding success, these five franchises bucked the trend.
Currently, Major League Baseball is scheduled to begin the 2021 season on Thursday, April 1. Of course, this date was determined and publicized prior to the start of last year’s abbreviated season, so the uncertainty of this year’s campaign is still looming. While a COVID-19 vaccine has been developed, the
Just as the calendar was about to flip to May 2020, Little League International canceled the Little League World Series for the first time in the event’s 73-year history due to growing concerns of the coronavirus pandemic. Scheduled to return in August 2021, the tournament has a rich history of
Currently, the average age of retirement is 61 years old. This means, a person typically works around 40 hours a week for well over 30 years before resigning from their post. In the sports world, however, professional athletes usually wind down and retire around the age of 33. With that
While the origins of baseball are still hotly contested to this day, most can agree that references to games resembling America’s pastime date back to the 18th century. According to History.com, “its most direct ancestors appear to be two English games: rounders and cricket.” In September 1845, a group of
Ahead of the truncated 2020 Major League Baseball season, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the MLB Players Association negotiated a set of rule changes that would be implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While these rules had been discussed prior to the global crisis, the league felt the shortened season would be a
The last MLB expansion occurred in 1998 when the league added the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Rays to bring the total amount of teams to 30. While Arizona has steadily established itself as a viable MLB club, Tampa Bay’s 23-year history has been more of a rollercoaster ride,