THE PROBLEM IN BASEBALL For over a century, the sport of baseball has been one of America's greatest national pastimes. Every spring when the start of the baseball season comes around, thousands of fans get ready to fill the ballparks and watch their favorite players hit a homerun or strike someone out. ... Economically, there is a major problem with Major League Baseball right now. ... After learning that were many major financial problems in baseball, Commissioner Alan Selig organized a committee which he called the Commissioner's Blue Ribbon Panel on Baseball Economics. ... ...

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Pete develops a system in which players are evaluated through extreme statistics calculations that determine how much value each player represents for their current salary. ... The narrator then reminds the audience that baseball is not just a game of numbers. ... There is a lot of heart and non-statistical factors always at play during a baseball game. ... During the movie, Billy asks Pete to tell a player that he has been traded. ... Pete goes to the player with the plan and the objective in mind, and the result is a smooth altercation with the player. ...

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The big star player of the team at that time was the great Denton True "Cy" Young, more commonly known as "Cy," the big right hander spent nearly 20 years in the big leagues and set the pitching standard for all of baseball to follow. ... He has often been called the best baseball player of all time. ... He experienced a lot of great players in his days with the Red Sox. He had players like, Lefty Grove, Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, and Bobby Doerr. One of the greatest players ever in the game was Ted Williams. ...

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