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Closure Looms for House That Built Ruth

A Catholic school in Baltimore that traces its roots to the Yankees slugger is scheduled to close, the victim of declining enrollment and tough economic times.




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04 2010

Sports Business: Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry on Hiatus for Most of the Summer

Baseball’s schedule makers this year threw a curve: there will be no matchups between the teams from May 18 to Aug. 6.




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04 2010

Sports Business: Lots of Memories, and Debris, at Old Yankee Stadium

So much has been destroyed that it’s hard to feel even a tingle of fuzzy nostalgia for the house that Ruth built and the city is razing.




11

03 2010

Sports Business: Yankees Expect Success for Pinstripe Bowl

The team’s president says the bowl game will be a hit because it will be run by the Yankees and played at Yankee Stadium.




10

03 2010

A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out That Card

Topps will formally announce its Million Card Giveaway, in which special cards placed in every sixth pack this year will have a code corresponding to a vintage card.




19

02 2010

Sports Business: A Manufacturer’s Debt to Haiti

Two decades after it stopped making baseballs in Haiti, the sporting goods manufacturer Rawlings could help the devastated nation by reopening its assembly plant.




04

02 2010

Judge Rejects Former Garden Executive’s Lawsuit Over YES Network

A federal judge in Manhattan rejected on Tuesday all claims made by a former president of Madison Square Garden that he gave George Steinbrenner the idea for the YES Network.




28

01 2010

TV Sports: The How-To of an Admission in the Steroid Era

Mark McGwire’s apologetic interview with Bob Costas was the culmination of a carefully planned media strategy.




12

01 2010

The Decade in Sports: Baseball Stars Blinked Before the Unblinking Eye

The Congressional testimony of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, broadcast on national television, was the steroids trial that has not occurred in baseball.




28

12 2009

Sports Business: An Unfair Target? The Yankees Say So

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky and the New York Yankees are engaged in an acid, bruising court battle over access to a wide array of documents relating to the team’s new stadium.

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06 2009