The Following is by Alicia Walker, a Featured Writer:

Great Careers for People Who Love Baseball

Baseball offers the best of all spectator sports. Baseball has the fast-paced, explosive action, speed and power of football, the tangible momentum swings and tension build up of soccer, the etiquette and heritage of golf, and the technique and individual flair of the NBA. It’s not hard to agree that all of the above factors are pretty awesome. In the same way, it’s not hard to understand that your job as an office clerk offers none of the above.
There are many people who love baseball, but there are not many people who have a career in which to manifest that love. This unfortunate fact about many people's careers can be remedied. The following careers are perfect for those who love baseball.

Sports Business Management

Developing a career in business management does not mean you have to become the next Theo Epstein. What it does mean, however, is that you are probably going to earn the accompanying college degree. This degree is a four-year degree, and it will open the door to jobs in baseball on all levels. For example, you could get a position within your city's co-ed recreational baseball league, your neighborhood's little league front office, or land a marketing and sales position for a minor league baseball team.

In the Media

Many baseball fans have a play-by-play voice, television analyst, or talk-show radio host that is readily associated with their home team. These are not the only media jobs, however. A lot of behind the scenes work goes into every game: camera operators, lighting technicians, wardrobe coordinators, writers, producers – the list goes on.
A college degree, such as an associate degree in sports media technology, is helpful for those interested in this kind of job, but applicants can always help their cause – especially for media positions – by having extensive statistical or historical knowledge about the subject, as well as an outgoing and amicable personality.

Freelance Writer

The beauty of baseball is that everyone has a different take on an issue. As such, the world could always use another opinion. There are hundreds of sports-blogs that could be interested in your opinion or analysis, and you do not necessarily need any specific training (although English-proficiency is probably a pre-requisite!).

Umpire

This job is not for everyone, but when it comes to a way for non-athlete's to get a baseball-oriented career, there are not many careers that offer a better chance. Like Major League Baseball (MLB) players, an umpire must work his way through the minor leagues. However, it usually takes an umpire about seven to 10 years of minor league experience before they get the major league call up. Keep in mind that this is much longer than a major league player.
There is also extensive schooling involved in becoming an MLB umpire, and only top students make the cut to be considered for work in the minor leagues – the top 15 percent to be exact. There are between 60 and 70 umpires in the big leagues and, due to the low turnover rate of major league umpires, it is a long shot to become an MLB umpire. You can learn more about what it takes to become a baseball umpire here.

Agent

Agents negotiate player contracts. You can learn more about what it takes to be a sports agent here, but basically, an agent needs to have a four-year undergraduate degree as well as a law degree. Law degrees are professional graduate-level degrees and take three years to complete. Admissions into law school are competitive, and the best schools require top scores on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) – as well as high undergraduate GPA results.
These certainly are not the only careers that have to do with baseball. I did not even touch on the different medical fields that you could consider, such as athletic trainers and physical therapists.

The Following is by Leslie Branch a Featured Writer:

Why Baseball is Magic

Baseball is magic because nothing is ever as it seems. For example, let’s say you have your light-hitting (but great fielding) shortstop up at the plate. It’s 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh in favor of the other team, but the inning's lead-off batter just took a 3-1 fastball high and away for ball four. In such a close game, bunting the runner over to second is probably the safest move. However, you know that a reliever coming onto the hill to start off an inning is prone to some control problems at first; moreover, he will start fastballs right over the plate to get some strikes. A pitch to hit is probably on its way in the next two pitches, and the particular player at the plate is just money when it comes to picking up base hits in the later innings of a close game. It’s the kind of intangible that permeates the whole game: The knowledge that at any moment, something unlikely, amazing, quirky, or gritty – or all of the above – is bound to happen.

The pitch comes and sure enough it’s a fastball out over the plate. The experienced shortstop does not try to do too much with the pitch, but hits it soundly the other way into right-center field, allowing the leadoff walk to get to third. The aggressive move paid off: Now your team has runners on first and third with no outs, rather than one out and a man on second.

Everyone has their own take on an issue, their own preference with a certain guy at the plate. The person sitting next to you may have had a completely different preference, preferring to keep a cool head about things and play the numbers. He thinks a man hitting .210 is always going to lay down the bunt in that situation. The alternative to letting him swing away is a ground ball double play; then you would be left with two outs and nobody on. If we needed a run badly enough to go against the odds, at least wait until the bottom of the eighth or ninth.

You can see the point. A baseball game can have hundreds of potential circumstances on the field, let alone all of the intangibles provided by the six inches between every baseball player's ears. You could even study baseball in a college course: The rituals of the players in light of that which they cannot control or the relationship between a team and its community.

Another aspect of the magic of baseball is that the athletes are truly the best in the world. Baseball is the kind of sport where, in order to put it all together and put together a Hall of Fame career, the player must master many aspects that involve different traits. Obviously is the physical aspect of the game –durability, power, arm strength, and technique. However, there is the mental aspect of the game as well –one's baseball IQ so to speak, when to shade over to left-center field when a certain player is up to bat, how to deal with the inevitable slump or injury and come back stronger.

When a player can put skillfully put together baseball's mental aspect with rare physical gifts, it is magical to watch.

Sources

Sociology 101 (2012)
Baseball is Magic (2012)