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Before the 1994 strike, I lived and breathed baseball and attended two to three dozen games a year. I knew it was a business, but I thought that--for the lords of baseball--the sport came first. When the postseason was canceled, and there was no World Series, I learned that baseball is a business first and a sport second. If the owners and players don't care about the outcome of a season, then why should I? Baseball may be back, but this disgruntled fan isn't. MARC I. WHINSTON New York City...
...Indians, the team is only marginally profitable. Last year, the company as it is currently configured would have posted net income of only $6.9 million, and that includes a one-time shot of $9.3 million from league-expansion proceeds and income from 18 of a potential 19 postseason games. When the team eventually stops winning, it could easily lose $10 million a year...
...Cleveland Indians have sold out every home game for three years in a wonderful new ballpark, and are postseason mainstays. Yet the baseball team is only marginally profitable. This week, with no place to go but down, the club will offer stock to the public for $15 a share. Rabid fans may want the stock, but others should take a pass...
...homecrowd, Harvard left no doubt as to who was thebetter team. A pair of goals by Aeschliman, whobegan the season on the junior varsity squad, andspectacular defense from sophomore sweeper JessicaLarson and sophomore goalkeeper Anne Browning ledHarvard to the 2-0 win and into the second roundof the postseason tourney for the first time since1984...
...wasn't the way the season was supposed to close out. At the very least, Harvard expected to have its postseason fate decided on the court against William & Mary, not Virginia Tech. Regardless of how the end came about, the Crimson continued what is fast becoming habit, hitting a wall at the regional tournament and failing to advance into the Big Dance...