The Business of Baseball website
It is impossible to follow major league baseball without getting your head into the game’s business side. As a boy I remember hearing about the Babe saying he deserved more money than president Herbert Hoover because, “I had a better year than him.”
It was big news when players earned more than $100,000, and the Koufax/Drysdale holdout seemed to transfix a nation. What would they get away with?
Fantasy baseball itself incorporates the business of the game into the competition, and the question of whether cities or teams should pay for ballparks is of civic importance across the country.
The Business of Baseball website collects data, articles, interviews, documents and other important materials relating to the game and its business. It is just a start, there is certainly tons more stuff that could be collected there, but it’s a valuable resource right now and a model for the collection of baseball information on the web.