In 2024, Major League Baseball has permanently banned Tucupita Marcano after determining that the infielder placed hundreds of bets on baseball, including wagers on games involving the Pittsburgh Pirates when he was with the team in 2023. Marcano ...
During a time period in which manufacturers were rushing to produce as many cards as possible to keep up with demand, Fleer became a bit careless with its Bill Ripken 1989 Fleer baseball card. Ripken carved the phrase in the bat. Bill noticed tha ...
Disco Demolition Night was a MLB promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, that ended in a riot. At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doublehe ...
The Brooklyn Dodgers played in the NFL from 1930 to 1943. Its home games were played at Ebbets Field, also the home of MLB's Brooklyn Dodgers.
In 1995, the Dodgers had a promotion where it gave out 15K baseballs. Fans didn't like some calls from the umpires leading to the field being flooded with baseballs and the game being forfeited.
The Mets released Bonilla in January 2000 but were still on the hook for his $5.9 million salary that season. Believing they were poised to make a significant profit through their investments with Bernie Madoff, Mets ownership instead agreed to defe ...
With fans not having much reason to show up to Candlestick Park in 1984, the Giants and its copywriters introduced the Crazy Crab, a proto-Gritty crustacean designed to be hated. The season's tagline was "Hang in There" was they were the worst tea ...
In 1999, Enron paid $100 million over 30 years to name the Houston Astros ballpark. After the Enron scandal of 2001, the Astros and the bankrupt Enron came to an agreement to end the deal and rename the stadium in February 2002, which is now called ...
In 2023, the Mets had the highest payroll in MLB history at $374.7 million requiring them to pay an additional record $101 million luxury tax. They finished fourth in the NL East at 75-87 in the most expensive flop in baseball history.
Disney acquired the Angels in 1996 after creating the NHL expansion team, The Mighty Ducks, in 1992. Disney later sold both teams as they realized it was outside their core competency to operate sports teams. Disney unsuccessfully introduced cheer ...
