CNN: Cracker Jack, peanuts, hot dogs. It almost seems like ballpark food is more exciting than the game itself. And if Pati Grady has anything to do with it, we’ll soon be adding shortbread cookies to the list of iconic ballpark snacks. In 2004, Grady searched online for a baseball cookie cutter to no avail. […]
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CNN: Ravi Ratan purchased the domain name Cufflinks.com as an offshoot of his family’s third-generation menswear company and with plans to eventually start a business. Even before the site was developed, Ratan immediately started receiving e-mails from people looking for cufflinks online. To capitalize on the interest, he took photos of the inventory in one
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Selling bats to MLB players isn’t like working in a sporting good store: Like a fashion designer who gives Oscar-bound starlets free gowns, a bat salesman hands out free wares, eating the $70-to-$120 cost of a high-quality bat. (After the free trial, if the player orders a bat, they’re paid for by the ballclub). But
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WSJ: Anyone who has seen a Major League Baseball game the past few years has seen the absurdity: wooden bats constantly splintering, shattering and breaking, their shards fluttering across the field and occasionally into the stands. But where the rest of us saw an annoyance and potentially a danger, two fans saw a business opportunity.
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On this day in 1892, Alexander Cartwright, the inventor of baseball, died. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright, a member of New York City’s Knickerbockers club, led the codification of the so-called Knickerbocker Rules. The practice, common to bat-and-ball games of the day, of “soaking” or “plugging”—effecting a putout by hitting a runner with a thrown ball—was
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