BALTIMORE — The nearest baseball field to the New York Court of Appeals is a sandlot that will soon host a youth league, ages 4 to 6. But inside the Albany, N.Y., courthouse Tuesday, Big Baseball was taking place.
Attorneys for two Major League Baseball franchises pleaded their cases in a dispute that has gone on for more than a decade over roughly $100 million in television revenue.
The Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals have disagreed for several years about how much money each should have received from the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network — the regional television network the teams own, with the Orioles as the majority owner — from 2012 to 2016. Twice, arbitration committees of Major League Baseball executives ruled in the matter, but the Orioles appealed both times.
