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MLB

Field Studies examine hiring and firing trends at the highest sport levels. For this Field Study our research lab at the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University sought to explore MLB hiring patterns from 2010-19. In this collection are the Global Sport Matters stories and conversations that examine and interpret the data and trends found in the report.

From Our Lab

Field Studies: MLB Manager Hiring Criteria and Career Pathways from 2010-19

Culture

Beyond the Selig Rule: Can Baseball Fix Its Pipeline For Managers of Color?

Culture

Major League Baseball Had a Chance to Stop the Drain of Black Players From Baseball. It Didn’t.

Youth

Out at Home: How High Costs and Low Representation Prevent Black Youth From Playing Baseball

Youth

‘We Need to Create That Stage’: How Women’s Baseball Is Working to Grow Abroad – And at Home

Culture

Can a More Popular Baseball Video Game Help Actual Baseball Become More Popular?

Minor League Baseball team Dayton Dragons mascot

Business

Following Contraction, Minor League Baseball Is Smaller. But Is It Better?

Opinion

‘The Inequities Still Are Large’: A Conversation With Reggie Jackson on Baseball and Race

Watch

Word with the CEO: Can Baseball Reconnect With Americans of Color?

Baseball leadership is a difficult ladder to climb

Watch

GSM Live (Video): Looking Forward - A Renaissance for American Baseball

Listen

Breaking the Fix: A Story of Segregated Baseball in South Africa, Part One

Listen

Breaking the Fix: A Story of Segregated Baseball in South Africa, Part Two

Events

GSM Live: Looking Forward - A Renaissance for American Baseball

All Field Studies are completed by our research lab at the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University. The purpose of these reports is to explore hiring and firing trends at the highest sport levels.

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