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Best Night of Baseball Ever: You Can Bet on It

29 September 2011

So wow. I hope you stayed up last night – like I did – to catch those baseball games. And by those baseball games, I mean a set of four baseball games that made up what was possibly the greatest night in baseball regular league play. If you didn’t catch it, I highly recommend you [...]

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Beer, Taxes and Baseball: Can You Get Any More American Than That?

20 July 2011

Baseball fans all over the country can breathe a sigh of relief. No, it’s not because the Phillies managed to crank out two runs in the ninth last night to remain atop the NL East. Rather, it’s because the darling of baseball these days, Christian Lopez, won’t be paying out of pocket for taxes after [...]

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The IRS Cares What Clemens Has to Say

14 February 2008

IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky has a special interest in the hearing for seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens. Novitzky has been at the helm of a five-and-a-half-year investigation into steroids in professional sports including drug use in Major League Baseball. Novitsky had expected to hear testimony from New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, [...]

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756 Goes On the Chopping Block.

22 August 2007

As a bunch of folks predicted, Barry Bonds’ record-breaking home run ball (756) will be sold at auction. The fan who caught it, 21 year old Matt Murphy, says he can’t afford to keep it because of the tax consequences. He reportedly said that “several people told him he would be taxed on the souvenir” [...]

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The Ball. The Hoopla. The Tax.

9 August 2007

There is a lot that is going to be written about that ball. You know the one that I’m talking about… 756. You know that what could be considered a tax event is mainstream when you see it announced on ESPN. And yes, there it was on the ticker yesterday: What are the tax consequences [...]

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