Some owners are competent, effective business people who care about the game. Many others do not share these attributes. - Andrew Zimbalist

Nobody ever said that capitalism guarantees profit.

Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.

The first baseball game ever televised was a battle for fourth place in the Ivy League between Columbia and Princeton on May 17, 1939.