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One Million dollars. That's the prize that 24-year-old Wade McGilberry of Semmes, Alabama won for pitching a perfect game. If you didn't hear the news on ESPN, don't worry, Wade isn't a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He is a video game record setter, who pitched his perfect game in MLB 2K10,...

I grew up in Milwaukee, the smallest city with its own Major League Baseball team. During my summer vacations from high school and college, I worked as a vendor at Milwaukee County Stadium, where the Brewers played before it was torn down and replaced by Miller Park. Not once during that time did...

When Don Zminda was the statistician for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball in the 1990s, he spent most of his Sundays calculating reams of data that were written onto a stack of note cards for announcers Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. That was the state of the art back then -- not now. "It would take me...

Looks like it is going to be a rough week for former baseball great Lenny "Nails" Dykstra. For those of you not familiar with the situation, Nails was a star outfielder for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies who, in retirement, became an entrepreneur and investment guru of...

As the Tribune Co. looks to sell its Chicago Cubs baseball team, with the Ricketts family looking like the most likely buyer, the company is reportedly considering putting the team into bankruptcy to speed up the process. A Chicago Cubs bankruptcy would make it the first team to file since the...

Howard Stern said a contract "rights issue" is the reason why his show isn't on the Sirius XM (SIRI) software application that was made available last week at the Apple (AAPL) iTunes store. "It was a rights thing, a contractual rights thing," Stern told listeners on his radio show today. "It was...

From zero to a billion in nine months: iTunes customers have now downloaded one billion applications from its App Store, Apple said Friday in a press release. How did we live without our Apple (AAPL) iPhone apps 10 months ago? At first naysayers said, Who needs 'em? Now it's, How many do we...

Although Major League Baseball is generally more recession-proof than most other industries, the slowdown is already impacting ticket sales. The Oakland A's have seen their sales plunge 10% over the past few years and even the Boston Red Sox have seen interest decline by a few percentage points. As...

With the average baseball ticket costing $25.40, NBA ticket at $48.83, an NFL ticket at $72.20, and NHL seats at $48.72, it's no wonder sports fans have a difficult time making it through the turnstiles at stadiums and arenas across the country: Their wallets and purses are being picked. Some teams...

It's no surprise that consumers have been making cutbacks this past year in many area. I've written about how my wife and I were skipping out on tickets, and now it looks like others are doing the same. Even though Major League Baseball brought in record breaking attendance this past year,...