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The Tigers might be coming off a sizeable 10-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon, but it has not fully ...
Interleague play came in before the All-Star Game was used to determine home-field advantage in the World Series, and while the players still took pride in winning the All-Star Game, you have to ...
So with that in mind, and with a bull's-eye on interleague play's problems, the challenge to improve it was on as its 12th season commences Friday. And the five resulting suggestions aren't ...
Interleague play can create a rematch in the World Series, such as Boston-Colorado in 2007. That cannot happen with the All-Star Game, Griffey said, because it is the only time all season when ...
Interleague play began in 1997. It was certainly appealing at first to see teams face off against one another for the first time or maybe for the first time since a World Series.
When interleague play began in 1997, the only interaction between the two leagues since the creation of the American League in 1901 had been the World Series (created in 1903), the All-Star Game ...
I’ve seen a few complaints about interleague play, and I can’t for the life of me understand it. Many fans seem to enjoy the added dimension of play, but there are still those few doubters.
Believe it or not, this is only Year No. 8 in the glorious history of interleague play. So how come it's already so hard to remember life before interleague play? Yes, it was only 1997 when this ...
If you dislike interleague play, you are as common as a fruit fly in a dumpster behind a produce stand. People take to their blogs and Facebooks to render their displeasure in typed English.
Furthermore, most fans support interleague play, because nine times out of 10, they'd rather see their team play a top contender like the Red Sox or Yankees than a team like the Pittsburgh Pirates.
There were always two prime arguments in favor of interleague play: that it allows yearly regional match-ups (Yankees-Mets, Dodgers-Angels, etc.), and that it's generally just a fun thing.
Mike Schmidt says interleague play is an idea whose time has expired, and he said so for 25 paragraphs last week in a passionate guest column for The Associated Press. Have a question for Tim? Tim ...