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Baseball comes to its senses, making peace and avoiding chaos – ESPN
11:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Once upon a time in baseball, it wouldn’t have ended like this. And that, of course, is because, for close to 25 years, labor negotiations in baseball never ended like this. With peace. With stability. With a sport that has now gone so long without a work stoppage that the three other major professional sports in this land have combined for…
Key points of baseball’s new deal – Washington Post
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Luke from ‘Gilmore Girls’ played for the Durham Bulls baseball team – The Daily Tar Heel
Sarah Vassello | Published 10 hours ago Scott Patterson, the actor who plays Luke in the hit show “Gilmore Girls”, was a pitcher for the Durham Bulls in the 1980s. Photo Courtesy of Matt Sutor. He wears a baseball hat in almost every episode. And apparently, it’s not just a fashion choice — it could be an homage to his former career as a Minor League Baseball pitcher. There have…
Plans for baseball stadium in Brentwood are abandoned – The Union Leader
BRENTWOOD — The owner of the Seacoast Mavericks collegiate summer baseball team and USA Mavericks Baseball Club is abandoning plans for a baseball stadium and field complex in Brentwood in favor of a new location on the Seacoast. Dave Hoyt said he plans to move ahead with the project on about 100 acres of land off the Spaulding Turnpike, but…
New luxury tax rules, tobacco ban among changes in baseball labor deal – Chicago Tribune
Baseball players and owners reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract Wednesday night, a deal that will extend the sport’s industrial peace to 26 years since the ruinous fights in the first two decades of free agency. After days of near round-the-clock talks, negotiators reached a verbal agreement about 3 1/2 hours before the expiration of the current pact. Then they worked to draft a memorandum of understanding,…
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New MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement keeps labor peace, but … – ESPN
3:18 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Once upon a time in baseball, it wouldn’t have ended like this. And that, of course, is because, for close to 25 years, labor negotiations in baseball never ended like this. With peace. With stability. With a sport that has now gone so long without a work stoppage that the three other major professional sports in this land have combined for…
Keeping Yoenis Cespedes, Mets Step Up to the Plate – New York Times
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MLB Labor Deal Is Struck, Averting a Work Stoppage – New York Times
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Baseball peace endures, but new CBA curbs spending – ESPN
1:35 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Once upon a time in baseball, it wouldn’t have ended like this. And that, of course, is because, for close to 25 years, labor negotiations in baseball never ended like this. With peace. With stability. With a sport that has now gone so long without a work stoppage that the three other major professional sports in this land have combined for…
Major League Baseball players, owners reach tentative labor agreement – Las Vegas Review-Journal
IRVING, Texas — Baseball players and owners reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract Wednesday night, a deal that will extend the sport’s industrial peace to 26 years since the ruinous fights in the first two decades of free agency. After days of near round-the-clock talks, negotiators reached a verbal agreement about 3 1/2 hours before the expiration of the current pact. Then they worked to draft a…
Retired Baseball All-Stars Form Private Equity Group Dugout Ventures – Forbes
A line-up of Barry Larkin, David Ortiz, Nolan Ryan, Vernon Wells and Torii Hunter would be tough to beat in a men’s adult baseball league. But would you have as much faith in their success off the field, investing in businesses? They believe that you will. The aforementioned list of baseball All-Stars have joined together to create Dugout Ventures, a private equity group focused on investing in brands and products that have…
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Baseball Officials Negotiate With Labor Deal Set to Expire – New York Times
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Baseball can’t afford to risk all of its goodwill with a lockout – San Francisco Chronicle
The Cubs won their first championship in 108 years in a thrilling World Series that lasted seven games, drew historic ratings and evolved into one of baseball’s all-time feel-good stories. Then the owners and players shut down the game, destroyed the good vibe and alienated their fans. How silly does that sound? The collective bargaining agreement expires Thursday, and if the sides don’t reach a new agreement, owners could lock…
Fidel Castro, Baseball Star? – snopes.com
Claim: Future Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was once given a tryout by the Washington Senators baseball team. false Example: [Collected via the Internet, 2003] David Crow, who recently visited Stanford and enlightened me about Mexico, where he resides, has an explanation for Cuba’s anti-Americanism. Fidel, an outstanding left-handed pitcher, tried out for the Washington Senators in the late 40’s but was rejected. [Morgan & Tucker, 1984] Another often-told story…
Baseball can’t afford to risk all of its goodwill with a lockout – San Francisco Chronicle
The Cubs won their first championship in 108 years in a thrilling World Series that lasted seven games, drew historic ratings and evolved into one of baseball’s all-time feel-good stories. Then the owners and players shut down the game, destroyed the good vibe and alienated their fans. How silly does that sound? The collective bargaining agreement expires Thursday, and if the sides don’t reach a new agreement, owners could lock…
Baseball can’t afford to risk all of its goodwill with a lockout – San Francisco Chronicle
The Cubs won their first championship in 108 years in a thrilling World Series that lasted seven games, drew historic ratings and evolved into one of baseball’s all-time feel-good stories. Then the owners and players shut down the game, destroyed the good vibe and alienated their fans. How silly does that sound? The collective bargaining agreement expires Thursday, and if the sides don’t reach a new agreement, owners could lock…
If gates are opened, Cuban baseball talent could flood MLB – New York Daily News
More than ever, the future of baseball in Cuba, at least as it relates to America, is in the glare of a spotlight created by last week’s death of Fidel Castro and then the threat by president-elect Donald Trump to roll back diplomatic relations between the two countries. At stake is the hope that Cuban players will eventually be free to play in the U.S. without risking punishment…