Tradesports Baseball

I’m a big fan of Tradesports. This is a Web site where you can buy futures on real world events. They currently have contracts on everything from the World Series and Super Bowl to the presidential election and capture of Osama Bin Laden.
Here’s a chart of the futures contract for the Cardinals to win last night’s game. You can tell when Berkman hit his home run in the seventh and when Pujols crushed Lidge’s pitch over the railroad tracks in the ninth.
Now if I had only loaded up on Cardinal contracts in the ninth….

Posted by on October 18th, 2005 at 6:06 am


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