The San Francisco Giants are selling a 10% ownership stake to private equity firm Sixth Street.
Contracts keep getting bigger in Major League Baseball, which has no salary cap. Soto’s windfall surpasses Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million deal.
Ohtani baseball cards can command hundreds of thousands of dollars. One recently sold for a record $336,000.
At one point, tickets for tonight’s game were priced at an average of $2,400 on SeatGeek. Now they’re about half that amount.
A new deal between Comcast and Diamond Sports Group isn’t enough to keep teams from pursuing new streaming alternatives.
Fans of the Dodgers phenom are coming by the thousands, despite the weak yen.
Comcast was unable to reach a deal this week on carriage with the owner of 18 regional sports networks.
When the Negro Leagues disbanded, there were winners and losers.
Effa Manley, owner of the Newark Eagles, firmly believed her team’s success was tied to the ongoing struggle for justice in her community.
It’s just one of the lasting economic legacies of the professional baseball played in the Negro Leagues in the 20th century.
