Major League Baseball Goes Global - Forbes.com

Major League Baseball Goes Global - Forbes.com: "

NEW YORK - For Major League Baseball, the basic business model hasn't really changed since 1869.

Even as changing times broadened the sport's base of paying customers from America's Eastern Seaboard, across North America and on to the other side of the Pacific, moving the business ahead has always been about one smart, overriding strategy--keeping the cartel going by squashing the competition in its tracks. Developing new markets on its own has never really been on the agenda; it's been more of a matter of eyeing the landscape and then muscling competitors aside.

And in today's global village, some think Latin America, Japan and Korea are due to follow the myriad U.S. cities that the league has spread its wings to throughout its history. "