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. ... A man named John I. ... He is the man who not only gave the team the name Red Sox, but he also gave them their home, Fenway Park. ... It is said that the home run hit a man right on the head, and he was a Yankee fan. ... The Red Sox were getting a little better under the leadership of Tom Yawkey. ...

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I realize that you may know little or nothing about Griffey or about the sport of baseball or the nature of U.S. major league baseball teams, contracts, and negotiations. ... You do not need to be particularly knowledgeable about baseball to understand and analyze what went on, but it does help to know a little bit about the context in which Griffey's contract was up for grabs. ... This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team owner vs. another, but the bigger factor is media market size. ... In baseball, this revenue is not shared - each team gets to keep its own revenue - so t...

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I realize that you may know little or nothing about Griffey or about the sport of baseball or the nature of U.S. major league baseball teams, contracts, and negotiations. ... You do not need to be particularly knowledgeable about baseball to understand and analyze what went on, but it does help to know a little bit about the context in which Griffey's contract was up for grabs. ... This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team owner vs. another, but the bigger factor is media market size. ... In baseball, this revenue is not shared - each team gets to keep its own revenue - so t...

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I realize that you may know little or nothing about Griffey or about the sport of baseball or the nature of U.S. major league baseball teams, contracts, and negotiations. ... You do not need to be particularly knowledgeable about baseball to understand and analyze what went on, but it does help to know a little bit about the context in which Griffey's contract was up for grabs. ... This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team owner vs. another, but the bigger factor is media market size. ... In baseball, this revenue is not shared - each team gets to keep its own revenue - so t...

• Word Count: 3204
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• Grade Level: High School

I realize that you may know little or nothing about Griffey or about the sport of baseball or the nature of U.S. major league baseball teams, contracts, and negotiations. ... You do not need to be particularly knowledgeable about baseball to understand and analyze what went on, but it does help to know a little bit about the context in which Griffey's contract was up for grabs. ... This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team owner vs. another, but the bigger factor is media market size. ... In baseball, this revenue is not shared - each team gets to keep its own revenue - so t...

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I realize that you may know little or nothing about Griffey or about the sport of baseball or the nature of U.S. major league baseball teams, contracts, and negotiations. ... You do not need to be particularly knowledgeable about baseball to understand and analyze what went on, but it does help to know a little bit about the context in which Griffey's contract was up for grabs. ... This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team owner vs. another, but the bigger factor is media market size. ... In baseball, this revenue is not shared - each team gets to keep its own revenue - so t...

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• Grade Level: High School

I realize that you may know little or nothing about Griffey or about the sport of baseball or the nature of U.S. major league baseball teams, contracts, and negotiations. ... You do not need to be particularly knowledgeable about baseball to understand and analyze what went on, but it does help to know a little bit about the context in which Griffey's contract was up for grabs. ... This can be a result of the deep pockets of one team owner vs. another, but the bigger factor is media market size. ... In baseball, this revenue is not shared - each team gets to keep its own revenue - so t...

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They have visions of grandeur that their team will make and win the "big dance", the World Series. ... Children, who are now adults, grew up playing baseball and listening to stories of the "Great DiMaggio" or how their grandfather saw Ted Williams play or how he used to watch Walter "Big Train" Johnson pitch when he was a child. ... To see a ballpark when the sun is beginning to set is enough to make the toughest man cry. ... The Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Babe, there are so many nicknames to describe one man. ... Ruth was a married man. ...

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Before we start traipsing down the yellow brick road of baseball's big constitutional changes last week, before we assume Bud Selig now has carte blanche to fix every problem under the sun, let's remember a few realities about this great game of ours. ... Perhaps now, baseball lives most purely in the imagination, whether it be a little-leaguer's hopes of making her first double-play or an old-timer's memory of his first home run, gilded affectionately by the passage of time. ... Because after 2004, the NHL may have bigger problems on its hands with its smaller market...

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Horace Wilson is the man who gets the credit for starting baseball in Japan. ... There is the Japanese "Iron Man" Kinugasa Sachio of the Hiroshima Carp; he played in 2,215 consecutive games. ... (http://www2.gol.com/users/jallen/jimball.html#History ) In American baseball there are only two types of rosters, a 25 man and a 40 man. ... The third roster is the 28-man roster that are on first team bench. ... The final roster is the 25-man roster these players are chosen from the 28-man bench roster to participate in a given game In my opinion the strangest rule in Japanese baseball is the fo...

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