ROBERT WILLIAM (“BOBBY”) BROWN, MD, Cardiologist, Major League Baseball Player (New York Yankee), and American League President: A Conversation With the Editor⁎⁎This series of interviews was underwritten by an unrestricted grant from Bristol-Meyers Squibb.

2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 715-742
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Baseball Player ◽  
Unrestricted Grant ◽  
Major League

Rose-Colored Glasses: Competing Media Perceptions of the Pete Rose Betting Scandal

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Craig Greenham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Major League ◽  
Market Coverage ◽  
The City

In a 2004 autobiography, legendary player Pete Rose confessed to gambling on baseball games, even those that included his Cincinnati Reds. The passage of time has clarified much about the betting scandal that plagued Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1989. Over the course of the six-month saga, Rose’s denials and his adversarial relationship with the Commissioner’s Office shrouded MLB’s investigation in controversy. This study explores the press coverage of the scandal in 1989 and determines that the Cincinnati press was more sympathetic to, and supportive of Rose than out-of-market coverage, represented in this investigation by The New York Times. These findings are consistent with previous research that indicates that local media favors hometown institutions during times of crisis. This study expands that theory by demonstrating that favoritism extends to individual players whose connection to the city is significant, and furthers our understanding of the media’s role in shaping the narratives of scandal.

It’s a Party in the MLB: An Analysis of Shirking Between Games in Major League Baseball

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Richard J. Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Baseball Player ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Estimation Strategy ◽  
Major League ◽  
Triple Difference ◽  
And Performance

This paper uses game-level Major League Baseball data to identify whether players with greater job security shirk in their preparation between games. Past work has identified evidence of moral hazard arising in multiyear Major League Baseball player contracts, but little work has been done in identifying when shirking takes place. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, this study finds evidence of an inverse relationship between the number of years remaining on player contracts and performance when the player is playing on short rest, when opportunity to rest is scarce, but not on long rest. Using a triple-difference specification, evidence is found that this inverse relationship between years remaining on a player’s contract when playing on short rest occurs for games played in “party cities.” This evidence would suggest that between game preparation is one avenue through which players on multiyear contracts shirk.

scholarly journals Sound Symbolism in Baseball Player Names

Names ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Stephanie S. Shih ◽  
Deniz Rudin
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Real World ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Baseball Player ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Major League ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
Naming Practices

Recent work has argued that sound symbolism plays a much larger part in language than previously believed, given the assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign. A slate of recent papers on Pokémonastics, for example, has found sound symbolic associations to be rampant in Pokémon names cross-linguistically. In this paper, we explore a real-world dataset that parallels Pokémon, in which human players similarly have physical attributes of weight, height, and power: Major League Baseball. We investigated phonological correlations between baseball player statistics and their given first names, chosen baseball-official first names,and baseball nicknames. We found numerous sound symbolic associations in player-chosen names and nicknames, where conscious design may play a role in choosing a name that communicates an attribute. These associations were often mediated by language-specific hypocoristic formation processes. We conclude that sound symbolism occurs in real-world naming practices, but only when names are chosen in cognizance of the relevant attributes.

scholarly journals The Jock Tax Contest: Professional Athletes Vs. The States - Background And Current Developments

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Ekmekjian ◽  
James C. Wilkerson ◽  
Robert W. Bing
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
The State ◽  
Income Taxation ◽  
Professional Athletes ◽  
Baseball Player ◽  
National Anthem ◽  
State Income

Opening day of the Major League Baseball‟s 2<span>002 season fell on April 1 of that year. After the National Anthem was sung, the crowd applauded as the New York Mets took the field, and the umpire yelled, “play ball.” The State of New York also cheered. Why? New York, like a number of other states and localities, imposes an income tax on athletes that visit its borders. So, when Tex- as Rangers shortstop, Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid baseball player during the 2002 season with a salary of $22 million, played 4 regular season games in the Big Apple, he incurred a tax liability of approximately $34,250. This state income taxation of nonresident professional athletes is commonly referred to as “the jock tax.” This paper introduces the reader to the jock tax beginning with a brief explanation of state income taxes, continuing with a discussion of its complexi- ties and historical/current issues faced by athletes, teams and the states through implementation of the tax. The paper concludes with the broader implications of a state or local taxing jurisdiction's powers to tax its nonresident visitors. </span>

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