The Major League Baseball owners’ representatives have spent the run-up to the most consequential labor negotiations in a generation consolidating factions, staging a public-relations battle and trying to break up their opponents. The players’ chief representative has, apparently, been spending this span conducting an affair with a relative. Doesn’t seem like a very fair fight, does it?
The executive director of the players’ association, Tony Clark, stepped down Tuesday after more than a decade at the helm. The union’s statement said only that he had resigned; ESPN reported that an internal investigation—which had been spurred by a federal investigation by the Eastern District of New York into, among other accusations, alleged financial improprieties, abuse of power and nepotism—found evidence that Clark had been engaged in an improper relationship with his sister-in-law, whom the union had hired in 2023.
