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When a young girl was injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium last week, a cry went up across the baseball world for increased protection for fans from batted balls. In the search for an answer, perhaps Major League Baseball can look to Japan, where the danger of foul balls has been monetized. The good news is that the girl who was hit by a foul ball crushed by…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

When a young girl was injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium last week, a cry went up across the baseball world for increased protection for fans from batted balls. In the search for an answer, perhaps Major League Baseball can look to Japan, where the danger of foul balls has been monetized. The good news is that the girl who was hit by a foul ball crushed by…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

About 40 people gathered on a grassy North Philadelphia field Saturday morning to celebrate a new state historical marker honoring the spot where, on Sept. 3, 1869, civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto captained the all-black Pythians baseball team in the country’s first recorded interracial game. …

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

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Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in…

Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in…

Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in…

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Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Independent news is more important than ever. Sign up for The Nation Daily and get our hard-hitting journalism in your inbox every weekday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation…

(The Sports Xchange) – The Philadelphia Phillies relieved Pete Mackanin of his managerial duties on Friday but are retaining him as a special assistant to general manager Matt Klentak. The firing is a relatively surprising move because the Phillies extended Mackanin’s contract in May. He is signed through 2018 with a team option for 2019. Also, Philadelphia has enjoyed a strong second half behind the emergence of some young players,…

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sailors and soldiers will don flannel uniforms and play baseball by century-old rules to recreate the U.S. Army versus Navy games from World War I.  The U.S. Naval War College will recognize the centennial of America’s involvement in the war by planning Friday’s game in Newport, Rhode Island. Organizers say it’s a way to teach people more about the war, mark the anniversary and have a…

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Justin Dorgan, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Ricky Tang, right, pose in replica World War I-era flannel baseball uniforms at Cardines Field, where they will recreate a game from that era on Friday. (Matthew McCoy/Rhode Island World War I Centennial Commission via AP) It’s been 100 years since the United States became involved in World War I. To mark that centennial, the U.S. Naval War College in…

History can be made quietly. The crowd was an anemic 11,278 when the Pittsburgh Pirates fielded the first all-black and Latino starting team in Major League history on Sept. 1, 1971. And the press didn’t pay much attention to the lineup at Three Rivers Stadium that night, certainly nothing vaguely close to coverage of Jackie Robinson’s arrival with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Now it’s the Major Players themselves who seem to…

Doosan Group, the oldest business organization in South Korea, is looking to raise its profile in the U.S. To do so, the Seoul-based conglomerate is teaming up with ‘America’s Pastime.’ For the next four years, Doosan will advertise throughout the Major League Baseball playoffs, put up signs in MLB stadiums, and sponsor baseball’s live Facebook content. It will also be the presenting sponsor of the American League Divisional Series, the…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sailors and soldiers will don flannel uniforms and play baseball by century-old rules to re-create the U.S. Army versus Navy games from World War I. The U.S. Naval War College will recognize the centennial of America’s involvement in the war by planning Friday’s game in Newport, Rhode Island. Organizers say it’s a way to teach people more about the war, mark the anniversary and have a little…