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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Baseball org | History Defined

Air quality concerns delay Pirates game, cause tempers to flare between players, MLB

Baseball has often been described as a kids game.

Tribune News Service

Majority of baseball fans excited for start of season

But 28% of fans are at least somewhat angry and 39% are at least somewhat frustrated following the lockout.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Five-Tool Newsletter keeps you posted on everything going on in Major League Baseball.

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Michael Cunningham: Labor fight crowds out issues driving MLB’s decline

MLB franchise owners and players are figuring out how to divide a very large pot of money. There doesn’t seem to be much discussion about improving the product. Growing baseball revenue has become disconnected from growing the game. The former obviously depends on the latter, but making baseball better requires…

Tribune News Service

MLB, union negotiators try to figure out next step in labor talks

Negotiations broke off Tuesday after the ninth straight day of meetings in Jupiter, Florida, and baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that opening day and the first two series for each team this season had been canceled.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jeff Gordon: Baseball owners must partner with the players, not step on them

So the mindless baseball lockout continues.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

MLB: Season to be shortened if no deal by end of Monday

Major League Baseball gave locked out players five days to salvage March 31 openers and a full season, telling the union that games would be canceled if a labor contract is not agreed to by the end of Monday

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MLB lockout: Players’ revised proposal generates little progress; another meeting set for Wednesday

Another day of collective bargaining brought about only additional consternation between Major League Baseball and the Players Association as the calendar inches closer to a delay in the start of the season.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Before Brooklyn: the secret heroes who helped break baseball’s color barrier

Jackie Robinson is rightfully lauded for his role in the desegregation of baseball. But many others, from writers to train porters, helped the process

The Guardian - US

Labor Wars: A New Hope (Well, Maybe)

With 10 days to go until the MLB lockout impacts the scheduled start of the regular season, the two sides have made little progress on a new collective bargaining agreement. Yesterday in Manhattan, where temperatures were in the 50s and the atmosphere ideal for some spring baseball, the ...

Sports Illustrated

Benjamin Hochman: What will baseball be like if the lockout extends into some of the 2022 season?

ST. LOUIS — I’m reporting to you from the future. It’s Aug. 17, 2022 — so, six months from when you’re reading this. That Major League Baseball lockout you and other fans are enduring? Well, it happened — games were ultimately lost. The owners and players didn’t agree to a…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Baseball fans were shocked to learn that MLB isn’t drug testing players during the lockout

The Steroid Era, Part II.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Lockout intrudes on celebration, but Braves say sales still strong

Baseball's lockout came at an inopportune time for the Braves, casting a pall over the sport as the team was still celebrating a World Series championship.

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