Summary
NEW YORK - Baseball heads toward the All-Star break with most teams still in contention for a playoff spot and more fans deciding it's just not worth the money to watch the races unfold in person.
The game's top story in 2009 - at least, so far - is the economy. It's not a pretty tale.See the full content of this document
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Money Ball
For all of Major League Baseball, average attendance was down 6.4 percent through Thursday, even with many teams offering discounts to battle the recession. An Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll released this week found 63 percent of fans think the cost of a game is baseball's biggest problem.
The new Yankee Stadium became Exhibit A fo...See the full content of this document
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