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# Daniel Levitt

Baseball Scholarship

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- [Dan Levitt referenced on Meet the Press regarding All-Star Game in Washington D.C.](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/dan-levitt-meet-press/) - All-Star Game returns to a changed WashingtonAs the All-Star Game returns to Washington for the first time since 1969, MLB returns as a different league — demographically, geographically and financially. Video: https://nbcnewsencoding-vh.akamaihd.net/i/nbcnews/video/2018/07/mtp_data_downLoad_180715_616751202.mp4,,.csmil/master.m3u8?__b__=1000
- [Guest Lecturer: Law and the Business of Baseball](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/guest-instructor-law-and-the-business-of-baseball/) - Guest Lecturer: Law and the Business of Baseball – 2023 Summer Course Syllabus (3056 2020SU) -- Intentional Balk, Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating (July 30, 2023) https://agresso.mitchellhamline.edu/MHSLCourses/course.aspx?act=crs&val=3056
- [Mark Armour, Dan Levitt’s ‘Intentional Balk’ wins 2023 SABR Seymour Medal](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/mark-armour-dan-levitts-intentional-balk-wins-2023-sabr-seymour-medal/) - Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line between Innovation and Cheating, written by Daniel R. Levitt and Mark Armour and published by Clyde Hill Publishing, is the winner of the 2023 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, which honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year. Levitt and Armour
- [How MLB’s new rules are holding up against baseball’s long history of cheating](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/how-mlbs-new-rules-are-holding-up-against-baseballs-long-history-of-cheating/) - Dan Levitt quoted extensively in an article at The Athletic on July 26, 2023: How MLB’s new rules are holding up against baseball’s long history of cheating. The article dubbed Dan “our historian of wrongdoing — our Sultan of Not.”
- [50th anniversary of the Major League Baseball Players Association](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/50th-anniversary-of-the-major-league-baseball-players-association/) - As part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Major League Baseball Players Association in 2016, Dan (with Mark Armour) created a timeline history of the union for their website and their anniversary publication.
- [Start Spreading the News Interviews Author Daniel R. Levitt](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/sstn-interviews-author-daniel-r-levitt/) - "SSTN: Today we are here with author Daniel R. Levitt. Daniel is the award-winning author of numerous baseball books including In Pursuit of Pennants, The Battle That Forged Modern Baseball, and Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty among others. He is also the recipient of the Bob Davids Award, the highest award of the Society for American Baseball
- [Dan Levitt Speaker at SportCon Sports Analytics Conference, January 10, 2017.](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/dan-levitt-speaker-sportcon-sports-analytics-conference-2017/) - https://vimeo.com/347761043 Link: https://sportcon2017.sched.com/event/921v From Deadball to Techball: The Evolution of Baseball Innovation Moneyball highlighted a new way to think about building a baseball team. But trying to gain an edge has been going on since baseball began, and it didn't stop with the publication of Michael Lewis's book. For example, in the 1930s, the smartest
- [Exclusive Excerpt: In Pursuit of Pennants by Daniel R. Levitt and Mark Armour](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/exclusive-excerpt-in-pursuit-of-pennants-by-daniel-r-levitt-and-mark-armour/) - We are very pleased to bring you this exclusive excerpt from In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball by Daniel R. Levitt and Mark Armour. *** Read the full article -->
- [Exclusive Excerpt: Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty by Daniel R. Levitt.](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/exclusive-excerpt-ed-barrow-the-bulldog-who-built-the-yankees-first-dynasty-by-daniel-r-levitt/) - We are very pleased to bring you this exclusive excerpt from Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty by Daniel R. Levitt. *** Read the full article -->
- [Dan Levitt speaks with Marty Lurie on KNBR 680 pregame before the San Francisco Giants Saturday June 15th 2019](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/dan-levitt-speaks-with-marty-lurie-on-knbr-680-pregame-before-the-san-francisco-giants-saturday-june-15th-2019/) - Audio can be found here: http://www.loveofthegameproductions.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Levitt_daniel061519.mp3
- [Dan Levitt to speak at SportsCon MMXVIII on The Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/dan-levitt-to-speak-at-sportscon-mmxviii-on-the-kansas-city-royals-baseball-academy/) - Friday, February 2, 2018 The Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy: Baseball’s First Systematic Attempt to Analyze, Discover, and Train Unknown Players https://sportcon2018.sched.com/event/D8KH/the-kansas-city-royals-baseball-academy-baseballs-first-systematic-attempt-to-analyze-discover-and-train-unknown-players After being awarded an expansion team in 1969, Kansas City pharmaceutical mogul Ewing Kauffman brashly stated that he wanted to win the pennant in five years. Kauffman immediately began to search out new
- [SABR announces 2017 Henry Chadwick Award recipients](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/sabr-announces-2017-henry-chadwick-award-recipients/) - Link: http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-announces-2017-henry-chadwick-award-recipients The Society for American Baseball Research is pleased to announce the 2017 recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game’s great researchers—historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists—for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past. Dan Levitt (1962 - ) is the author or
- [Dan Levitt Presents at the 2017 SABR Annual Conference](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/dan-levitt-presents-2017-sabr-annual-conference/) - Link: http://sabr.org/convention/sabr47-presentations Presentation: RP29: Ejection Diaries: John McGraw Battles the National League’s Umpires and Executives Slides: Click here to download the PowerPoint slides from Dan's presentation (.pptx) John McGraw was one baseball’s greatest managers and one of New York’s most celebrated figures. He could be charming and generous. Alternatively, he often found himself in the middle
- [SABR 45: Dan Levitt selected as Bob Davids Award winner](https://daniel-levitt.com/news/sabr-45-dan-levitt-selected-bob-davids-award-winner/) - Link: http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-45-dan-levitt-selected-bob-davids-award-winner Daniel R. Levitt, an award-winning author and past president of SABR's Halsey Hall Chapter in Minnesota, was announced as the winner of the Bob Davids Award during the SABR 45 Awards Luncheon on Friday, June 26, 2015, in Chicago. The award — which is the Society's highest honor — honors SABR members whose contributions

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- [Award-Winning Writer, Executive Leader, and Speaker](https://daniel-levitt.com/) - Award-winning writer Daniel R. Levitt is the author of six books and numerous well-respected and well-received articles and short biographies. As Vice President for Ryan Companies US, Inc, he oversees capital markets for company-owned properties and works closely with service leaders to develop creative solutions for their customers and investors. Dan has over 20 years of direct finance experience and has developed a reputation for his thoroughness, clarity, creative problem solving and presentation skills. Dan is one of baseball's most astute front office analysts of owners, general managers and baseball business strategies who combines a historical, scholarly and fan understanding of teams, coaches, players and pennants. A frequent on MLB Today and longtime member of The Society for American Baseball Research, he was president of the Minnesota chapter, and left fielder on the chapter’s vintage baseball team
- [Media Appearances](https://daniel-levitt.com/media-appearances/) - Talking Cheating with filmmaker Jon Leonoudakis https://vimeo.com/1017052148/ebdf50f962 Discussing cheating at The Midnight Library of BaseballApril 15, 2024https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-episode-mark-armour-and-dan-levitt-stop-by-the-library/id1715136329?i=1000652509678 MLB Now: Was Tyler Glasnow the most important move of the Dodgers’ offseason?April 10, 2024https://x.com/mlbnow/status/1778120769555382375?s=43 MLB Now: After the Dodgers won 2 of 3 against the Braves, #MLBNow gives us their takeaways from the top two teams
- [Other Baseball Essays and Articles](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/other-baseball-essays-and-articles/) - Team Building and Front Offices Much of my analysis and research on of front offices and team building can be found at the website for my book In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations From Deadball to Moneyball (coauthored with Mark Armour) https://pursuitofpennants.wordpress.com/ Front Offices More Aggressive Than Ever in Looking for an Edge (Huffington Post)
- [Leadership](https://daniel-levitt.com/leadership/) - Dan has successfully built and led several teams and organizations through flush times and tough times. As the head of Ryan Companies capital markets group for over two decades, his team has supported Ryan’s exceptional growth by making sure the company's’ capital needs could be meet over a wide range of product types,
- [The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball: The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/the-battle-that-forged-modern-baseball-the-federal-league-challenge-and-its-legacy/) - Review: New York Journal of books - “Anyone who wants to advance beyond the stage of fandom to understand what it takes to establish and run professional baseball would do well to read Mr. Levitt’s fascinating book.” News: May 24, 2014 - The Kansas City Star - Long-forgotten KC Packers will take center stage at
- [About Dan](https://daniel-levitt.com/about-dan/) - Award-winning writer Daniel R. Levitt is the author of multiple books and numerous well-respected and well-received articles. As Executive Vice President for Ryan Companies US, he’s overseen more than $10 billion of capital transactions in the past five years. Dan is also one of the nation’s most astute baseball commentators on ownership, general managers,
- [Books](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/) - Other Baseball Essays and Articles
- [Media Kit & Speaking Engagements](https://daniel-levitt.com/about-dan/media-kit/) - Whether you’re at entry level or the C-Suite, Dan can share his experience, insight and expertise to increase your emotional intelligence, strengthen your leadership acumen and give you the tools to navigate the paths and pitfalls to reaching your goals. Entertaining, humorous, motivating, educating and ultimately elevating you and your team to their fullest potential.
- [Intentional Balk: Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/intentional-balk/) - Learn more at intentionalbalkbook.com From the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included cheating. Sometimes that rule-skirting is embraced as ingenious hijinks; other times, reviled as an unforgivable trespass. But what exactly is the difference? Why is skipping bases less egregious than signing underage players? Is sign-stealing evidence of ingenuity,
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- [In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/pursuit-pennants-baseball-operations-deadball-moneyball/) - March 28, 2018 The paperback edition of In Pursuit of Pennants gets a shout out in C.J.’s column in the Star Tribune February 27, 2018 Genesis in The Zone Podcast with Ian Kahanowitz regarding In Pursuit of Pennants Levitt on In Pursuit of Pennants 04/27/15 | 06:20 Dan Levitt joins MLB Now to discuss his
- [The National Pastime, 2012: Short but Wondrous Summers: Baseball in the North Star State](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/the-national-pastime-2012-short-but-wondrous-summers-baseball-in-the-north-star-state/) - Title: The National Pastime, 2012: Short But Wondrous Summers: Baseball in the North Star State Author: Society For American Baseball Research Dan Levitt Ed. ISBN: 9781933599229 Available at: Amazon B&N
- [Paths to Glory, How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/paths-to-glory/) - An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths To Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or
- [Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty](https://daniel-levitt.com/books/ed-barrow/) - Dan Levitt's biography of New York Yankee general manager Ed Barrow was originally released by the University of Nebraska Press in the spring of 2008. The paperback edition was released this spring Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow as general manager in 1920, the Yankees had never won a pennant. They won their

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