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MLB Players Association takes first steps to unionize minor leaguers

The Major League Baseball Players Association, which represents nearly 800 active baseball players, is seeking to add minor league players to its ranks, representing a labor shift that would allow the younger athletes to collectively bargain for better wages and playing conditions.

Tribune News Service

MLBPA makes push to unionize minor leaguers

The players’ association said Monday it is circulating union authorization cards among players with minor league contracts to form a separate bargaining unit from the big leaguers.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLBPA Releases Statement on Push to Unionize Minor Leaguers

Unionization could create a seismic shift in how business is conducted in the lower levels of baseball.

Sports Illustrated

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The Secret Recipe Behind the Orioles’ Illogical Playoff Push

No team has ever had a turnaround quite like Baltimore this season. Here’s how it happened.

Sports Illustrated

Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for record £10.8m at auction

The card was issued in 1952 by Topps

The Independent UK

Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for record $12.6 million

Yankees legend Mickey Mantle is still breaking records.

Tribune News Service

Adam Wainwright offered amazing insight during his mic’d-up bullpen session and MLB fans loved it

This was awesome to listen to.

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Adrian Sampson — 1 of 2 Chicago Cubs who can’t travel to Toronto because of vaccine requirements — gets pulled early from 9-7 loss

MILWAUKEE — Adrian Sampson handed off the baseball to Chicago Cubs manager David Ross, visibly unhappy at his removal.

Chicago Tribune

John Farnham's family share new statement, NASA set to launch new moon rocket, and MTV VMAs to host big names in music — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

ABC News

A new lip-reading of Oliver Marmol’s recent ejection shows him allegedly telling the ump he needs to ‘(expletive) retire’

Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol did not hold back on this ump.

USA Today Sports Media Group

It's a new record! A Micky Mantle card sold for $12.6 million

The price tag is the most anyone has paid for a piece of sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.

WEKU

A Mickey Mantle baseball card is now the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia

The mint condition card sold for $12.6 million. It's part of a booming market for collectibles.

WEKU

Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar

A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books Sunday as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia

The Independent UK

Minor-leaguers and their advocates hope Congress will revoke MLB’s antitrust exemption. Here’s how they are pushing for change.

CHICAGO — Rob Manfred’s response to a question last month about minor league salaries before the All-Star Game took off when the Major League Baseball commissioner said “I reject the premise that they’re not paid a living wage.”

Chicago Tribune

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Ichiro Suzuki’s induction into the Mariners’ Hall of Fame was a perfect celebration of the MLB legend

Ichiro deserves ALL the flowers.

Tribune News Service

In Old Timer’s Day surprise, Mets retire Willie Mays’ No. 24: ‘New York was a magical place to play baseball’

NEW YORK — On a day when Mets fans, players and coaches old and young gathered to celebrate Old Timers’ Day, the team made a surprise announcement.

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: It’s a bizarro season in Chicago, where contending White Sox get booed and optimism grows for Cubs

CHICAGO — With a little more than one month remaining in this bizarro baseball season in Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox have somehow managed to switch identities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball quiz: Going to the dogs

This quiz is in honor of all the canines out there during their time of the year — the dog days of summer.

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In 1982, a team from Washington won the Little League World Series and became famous. Forty years later, here is what the players learned.

SEATTLE — Pitcher Cody Webster didn't realize the magnitude of what he and his friends had accomplished until he saw the front page of a Chicago newspaper during an airport layover.

Los Angeles Times

For Dodgers’ Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman, playing every day is part of the deal

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman, working stiff? The moniker would hardly seem to apply to a guy who makes $27 million a year, flies charter, stays in five-star hotels and receives $100 per diem on the road while playing baseball for a living.

Sports Illustrated

Julio Rodríguez Is the Future of Seattle Sports

The J-Rod Show is staying in Seattle! This afternoon, it was reported that Julio Rodríguez and the Mariners were nearing a massive extension, with a ton of specific details that affect the overall terms of the deal. MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez was first to report the extension was happening, ...

Tribune News Service

Julio Rodriguez, Mariners finalizing massive, long-term contract

SEATTLE — Since the day he signed as a 16-year-old out of the Dominican Republic, the Mariners have known they have something special in Julio Rodriguez.

Tribune News Service

Family of man killed after row with squeegee workers to sue Baltimore and officials, lawyers say

BALTIMORE — The family of the baseball bat-wielding man shot dead during a confrontation with a group of squeegee workers in downtown Baltimore last month will sue the city for millions of dollars, claiming officials neglected to enforce laws that would’ve prevented the fatal encounter, attorneys for the family announced…

The Guardian - US

Oneil Cruz is 6ft 7in and can blast a baseball 122mph. But can he play?

Pirates rookie Oneil Cruz is already setting StatCast records but struggling at the plate. Does the 6ft 7in shortstop have what it takes to be baseball’s next star?

Manchester Evening News

The 'drunk', swaggering 'idiot' who robbed two men armed with a baseball bat... because he 'couldn't be a***d not having money'

'Do you want this wrapped around your head?', he spat at one of his victims

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