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Erik Bacharach

Closing Shot: Developmental League

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
While interns serve mostly in complementary roles for leagues and teams across the sports spectrum, in the Cape Cod Baseball League, they are as essential as the ballparks they work to maintain. “We’d be in so much trouble without them,” said Leah Ridpath, who oversees...

Forty Under 40: Royce Cohen

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
Long before he was guiding the Dodgers to new ticketing revenue heights while leading the club’s business strategy, Royce Cohen foreshadowed what was to come while he was still in his UPenn dorm room in 2008 hustling as a “garage broker.” Using the email address PhilliesSeasonTickets@gmail.com and...

Forty Under 40: Anuk Karunaratne

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
Everyone had it hard in the heat of the pandemic. Anuk Karunaratne experienced a uniquely difficult situation as he tried to lead the Toronto Blue Jays through the logistics of playing in three venues in three cities: Toronto, Buffalo and Dunedin, Fla. “Everything was new for...

Forty Under 40: Cale Vennum

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
Cale Vennum’s approach to ticketing is simple: “It has to be data driven and it has to be on a long-term horizon.” The Chicago Cubs’ ticketing guru, who established new records for the club’s ticket revenue in 2017 and 2018, led...

Pirates pay ode to Pittsburgh's gritty attitude with City Connect uniforms

Daily / Thursday, June 22, 2023
The Pirates have unveiled their Nike City Connect uniforms, which feature a simple, hardly flashy design that is accentuated by a light pattern on the gold jerseys. “From a distance, you see a really subtle design, but if you look closer there's a real story and meaning behind the...

Cubs unveil temporary London Series jersey patch

Morning Buzz / Thursday, June 22, 2023
The Cubs will feature an ad patch of Chicago-based Advocate Health on the sleeve of its uniforms for its upcoming two-game London Series against the Cardinals this weekend. The Cubs worked with MLB to sell the 4x2-inch patch -- which, for international games, is a league-controlled asset...

Fox Sports begins filming at new L.A. digital studio

Morning Buzz / Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Fox Sports has begun filming in its new digital studio at the Fox Studios Lot in L.A., the culmination of three months of construction and a vision to enhance the home of the platform’s lineup of digital original productions. “I was blown away with just the fact...

MLB Network ramps up draft combine coverage

Morning Buzz / Tuesday, June 20, 2023
MLB Network is continuing to emphasize its coverage of prospects with two days of MLB Draft Combine coverage planned for a combined six hours of programming from Arizona’s Chase Field, beginning today at 1pm ET. Over 300 prospects are expected to partake in the event, which is in its...

MLB’s international approach about more than money

Weekly / Monday, June 19, 2023
Major League Baseball played 11 games outside of the U.S. and Canada combined in 2018 and ’19, nearly as many as the 14 international games it played in all of its prior seasons combined. The London Series between the Yankees and Red Sox, MLB’s first regular-season games ever in...