Kevin M. Kniffin (Cornell) and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama (Oregon): Toward a Natural History of Team Sports. Seth Abrutyn (UBC): “Integrity, Sportsmanship, Character”: Baseball’s Moral Entrepreneurs and the Production and Reproduction of Institutional Autonomy. Nathaniel Grow (Indiana) and Zachary Flagel (Georgia): The Faulty Law and Economics of the “Baseball Rule”. How baseball will survive in the age of distraction: Samantha Power reviews Why Baseball Matters by Susan Jacoby. Why the worst thing about baseball is also the best thing about baseball. When Spanish names (don’t) flummox English-speaking baseball announcers. What’s with the home-run boom? Major League Baseball asked this professor to find out.
