Author: Paul Plaine www.ballparkprints.com

At an early age, I started to use the family camera. It was fun and a learning experience that put me on a path to a professional career. It never stopped being fun, and today, that journey continues.

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Sources: Playoff expansion has issues

MLB business as usual. money before the games best interest , money before the fans best interest!

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This weekend MLB released two statements on expanding the number of playoff teams. First just that they will expand the number of teams in the playoffs, then they would do this year. Wow they’re moving fast!

This is OK, but before you start adding teams think about fixing things like:

The full season schedule, shorter season.

Inter-league play.

The DH (I like it).

The All-Star Game more players get rid of the wining teams league get home field advantage in the World Series.

Realignment (for now) maybe 5 division 6 teams,

The number of teams in the playoffs

The playoff schedule giving the teams that won their division an advantage (more home games).

Then down the road think about adding two more teams four 8-team divisions (the perfect number).

These are just a few of the changes from my list I believe the game needs to explore.

MLB put the time into thinking about making this great game even greater

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Polo Grounds Sad Ending 1964

Today in 1956 The New York football Giants switches their NFL home games to Yankee Stadium fueling speculation the baseball Giants will also be leaving the Polo Grounds.

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Today in 1960:

Due to his fear of flying, Red Sox outfielder Jackie Jensen announces his retirement. The 1958 MVP will later change his mind.

In 2001 at Sotheby’s I bided on and won many lots of Ozzie Sweets baseball photographic images with the copyrights. In one of the lots was a portrait series on Jackie Jensen for Sport Magazine.

This past week I started work on the Ozzie Sweet images for my web site http://www.ballparkprints.com  next week I’ll have to start working on Jackie Jensen.

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On MLB Hot Stove last night, they talked about the new luxury tax system that starts in 2013. Owners made changes to the luxury tax in an effort to get the Yankees, Red Sox and a few other teams to lower there payroll. To me the new luxury tax reads more like a salary cap. It will be interesting to see how this impacts MLB and the players.