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Gammons said another example of major league baseball’s emergence as a major corporate force is the increasing nubmer of graduates from elite universities in management positions. Gammons said that Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, recently asked him to have interested Harvard students send applications to his office...
They’ve been coming all season, huddled in pairs in the press box or watching silently at practice. They come from Oakland, from Pittsburgh, from Indianapolis, drawn by a highlight reel and a rumor. They come because somehow or other they’ve heard that tucked away in the dusty corner of the football world that is the Ivy League, a future NFL quarterback is waiting to be discovered...
...easy. In today's era of free agents and salary arbitration, it's almost impossible to build dynasties. For a bit more money, players regularly flee even fun-loving championship teams. In the past three decades, baseball has produced just two mini-dynasties: the 1972-74 Oakland A's and the 1996-2000 New York Yankees. The Red Sox seem particularly vulnerable to market forces: as many as 16 of their players could become free agents this off-season, including pitchers Pedro Martinez and Derek Lowe, both of whom starred in the playoffs; shortstop Orlando Cabrera, who hit safely...
Compare those numbers to those of Landon Powell, a catcher from South Carolina that was selected in the first round of the same draft by the most famous figure of stats-based scouting, Oakland GM Billy Beane. Powell batted .330-.427-.611 in 270 at-bats. If you make the overly simplifying assumption that OPS is an indicator of success, Farkes’ numbers are better. But they are also more difficult to trust...
...interest, could not have been possible if we had each watched the game separately from our desk chairs and futons. It was the swarms of exuberant fans streaming out of common rooms that created the impromptu parade through Harvard Yard after the Sox’s victory over the Oakland Athletics...