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Major League Baseball: Don't Nationalize it, Privatize it!

Opening Day and a bad New York Times op-ed are timely reminders that much of what ails professional baseball is the intrusion of government.

Reason

As Oriole Park at Camden Yards turns 30, a look at how it all began: ‘It’s like seeing one of your children grow up’

BALTIMORE — Larry Lucchino walked into the Williams & Connolly law office in Washington on a Saturday morning, fresh from a conversation with Major League Baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth at spring training. In his hand he carried a brochure advertising the Yugo, a one-size-fits-all economy car, and in his mind…

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Paul Sullivan: Will MLB make amends for its shoddy treatment of fans over the winter? Dream on.

CHICAGO — When Major League Baseball returned from the players strike in 1995, teams looked for ways to get back in the good graces of alienated fans.

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Sports gambling ring that drew bets from professional athletes busted

LOS ANGELES — Five men have agreed to plead guilty to federal crimes for their roles in an illegal Southern California sports betting operation that took wagers from professional athletes, authorities said Thursday.

Los Angeles Times

Baseball players press lawmakers for minor league labor standards

Lawmakers in a handful of states are crafting policies to protect a workforce that they say has been exploited by poverty wages, restrictive contracts and onerous federal labor laws: minor league baseball players.

Tribune News Service

The Terrible Marriage Between Baseball and Streaming: TRAINA THOUGHTS

Streaming deals will no absolutely nothing to "grow" MLB

Sports Illustrated

MLB to return to London with Home Run Derby X challenge

Major League Baseball has announced a new global event which kicks off in London on July 9.

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Exclusive: Boston Red Sox pledge to make Fenway Park carbon neutral

This would be a first for Major League Baseball.

Axios

Supreme Court Reminds Us That the Best Answer to Unwanted Speech Is More Speech

Plus: On tipping and slavery, cities see population declines, and more...

Reason

Joe Starkey: We've officially lost our minds with the 'ghost runner' rule

PITTSBURGH — The news here isn't that the so-called "ghost runner" rule will return to Major League Baseball this season. It's that so many people barely blink an eye at the thought of it.

Tribune News Service

Expanded rosters give Cubs’ new-look pitching staff a boost

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to give teams two extra roster spots and remove the 13-pitcher limit for April.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chelsea sale: Every takeover bid submitted as Nicky Candy "significantly" ups offer

The deadline has passed for initial offers to be submitted from parties interested in owning Chelsea with Raine Group set to whittle down the number of consortiums to three

Daily Mirror

Document detailing MLB investigation into Yankees cheating will be unsealed

NEW YORK — A 2017 document detailing a Major League Baseball investigation into allegations of cheating by the New York Yankees will be unsealed, an appeals court ruled Monday.

Tribune News Service

Helbiz Secures OTT Rights For Three Major League Baseball Seasons In Italy

Helbiz Inc (NASDAQ:HLBZ) said its media arm, Helbiz Media, has signed an agreement with the North American professional baseball league, Major League Baseball (MLB) Under the agreement, Helbiz Media has acquired the OTT rights to stream the next three MLB seasons on the Helbiz Live platform in Italy. Helbiz Live will have live streaming…

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Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki facing transition on and off the field: ‘He’s really going to flourish’

Suzuki spent the past few months choosing a Major League Baseball team to join. Now that he has, the adjustment period begins.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tuchel Praises Focus of Chelsea Players as Troubled Holders Reach Champions League Quarters

Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel praised his players for remaining focused amid the uncertainty about the club's future after they progressed Wednesday to the Champions League quarter-finals, where he said they would be "the team nobody wants to play". The reigning European champions came from behind to beat Lille 2-1 in…

Los Angeles Times

Freddie Freeman, one of free agency's biggest prizes, agrees to Dodgers deal

It lurked in the background throughout Major League Baseball's three-month lockout.

Los Angeles Times

Former Dodger Corey Seager will take on a new, unfamiliar role with Rangers

SURPRISE, Ariz. — It's been more than three months since Corey Seager opted to sign with the Texas Rangers and close the door on the Dodgers, the only Major League Baseball organization he had ever known.

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Dodgers begin spring training as Freddie Freeman speculation continues to swirl

PHOENIX — Usually, Major League Baseball's offseason hot stove plays out behind the scenes, with executives operating in the shadows and news leaking out slowly on social media.

Tribune News Service

Dieter Kurtenbach: Don't give the A's your money -- they don't know what to do with it

A's fans deserve better.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sen. Dick Durbin: Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on baseball’s antitrust exemption

Major League Baseball, exempt from antitrust laws for nearly 100 years, has led to “an attitude of many of these baseball clubs that they are above the law,” Durbin said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs agree to one-year contract with shortstop Andrelton Simmons

The Cubs were in need of at least middle infield depth coming out of the Major League Baseball lockout.

Los Angeles Times

Trevor Bauer put on administrative leave by MLB ahead of spring training

LOS ANGELES — Trevor Bauer will not report to Camelback Ranch this week. The Dodgers pitcher will start this spring the same way he finished last season: on leave, while Major League Baseball continues what is now an eight-month investigation into sexual assault allegations against him.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Sen. Dick Durbin wants hearing to look into baseball antitrust exemption despite new labor deal

Even as Major League Baseball reached an agreement Thursday to end a 99-day lockout of its players, one of the highest-ranking members of the U.S. Senate said he intends to look into a century-old Supreme Court ruling that enables the league to operate as a lawful monopoly.

The Independent UK

Major League Baseball season set to go ahead after new deal, report says

Opening day will now take place 7 April after 99-day lockout

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