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From: Sporting News
Date: 20060825
Author:Walters, Steve

Legendary sportswriter Ring Lardner once said, "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong-but that's the way to bet." In baseball, of course, it's common to argue the race almost always goes to the well-to-do. The truth is more complicated-and encouraging. Sure, money matters. But so does being strongly managed.

What if we divided the 30 major league teams into five groups based on television market size (per Nielsen Media Research rankings) with subjective slottings for clubs splitting two markets (Chicago and San Francisco Bay Area)? The groups' combined winning ...

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