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Conversation: “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy”

Media correspondent Terence Smith interviews Jane Leavy about her new book on baseball legend Sandy Koufax.

Goal Line Economics: The Economics of Professional Football

By Paul Solman

Did pro football, a multibillion-dollar business, become America's most popular sport by practicing non-free-market economics? Under football's non-free-market model, firms compete furiously, yet share the industry's revenues, with labor and with each other. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

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Deal Averts Baseball Strike

Major League Baseball players and owners on Friday agreed to a tentative collective bargaining agreement that would avert a baseball strike.

Play Ball!

Ray Suarez looks the agreement between baseball owners and players with Jim Bouton, a former pitcher with the New York Yankees, the Seattle Pilots and the Houston Astros; Ron Rapoport, a sports columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times; and Allen Sanderson,…

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Poetry: Inferno

Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky considers Dante's possible take on baseball negotiations.

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Baseball Strike?

Ray Suarez reports on the failed negotiations between Major League Baseball team owners and the players' union, resulting in an August 30 strike date.

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