Loss of Jamiel Shaw's Life Transcends Sports

By dgrassi, Section Other Sports
Posted on Mon Apr 28 2008 at 9:15 PM EST
More on: Sports, Illegal Immigration, Government, Football (all tags)

The story of Jamiel Shaw, Jr., as reported, is not that of sensation but rather that of the war between our communities and our federal, state and local governments. For they have dropped the ball, not Jamiel, not his family, not his neighborhood.

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MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Wed Mar 19 2008 at 9:50 PM EST
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It is bad enough that much of MLB's revenues come by way of the very taxpayers it seeks to disenfranchise, and namely the African-American communities in the inner cities. However, now they are after even more. Read on to find out what.

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MLB Given Pass By Feds

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Fri Feb 22 2008 at 11:21 AM EST
More on: MLB, Drugs, Steroids, Congress, Business, Law (all tags)

By Diane M. Grassi

But MLB has not learned much in the past couple of decades when it comes to the integrity of the game, in obeying the law and in protecting the best interests of its athletes, its most precious commodity.

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Baseball Ill-Equipped for Global Politics

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Thu Jan 24 2008 at 5:41 PM EST
More on: MLB, Globalism, Economics, Business, Sports (all tags)

If MLB does not proceed with caution and realize it has not merely entered the domain of industrial globalization but the world of global politics and diplomacy, it could prove damaging.

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MLB's Fantasy To Monopolize Suffers Another Blow

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Fri Dec 07 2007 at 10:26 AM EST
More on: MLB; Internet gambling; Congress; Courts; Fantasy Leagues (all tags)

Since statistical information has always been considered in the public domain according to prior case law, it was a rather creative leap in legal gymnastics that MLB came up with in order to ward off other fantasy league owners, especially those who beat MLB to it.

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MLB Suffers No Lack of Hypocrisy

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Mon Sep 17 2007 at 10:59 AM EST
More on: MLB, WUA, Gambling, NBA, Business, Fraud (all tags)

How MLB differs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries from its historic past, is by virtue of its yearly multi-billion dollar revenues it now enjoys, enabling it more unilateral power over the game of baseball in spite  of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and the World Umpires Association (WUA) with which it must collectively bargain.

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MLB Bats Whittled Down to Uneven Playing Field

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Fri Jun 29 2007 at 10:57 PM EST
More on: MLB, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Sports Equipment (all tags)

Scrutiny which has been paid, in only just the past two years, over drug use among MLB players, while having been a black eye for MLB, is also convenient as Commissioner Bud Selig need not address myriad other issues which also play their part in preserving the integrity of the game.

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Does Clemens' Contract With Yankees Disrespect Baseball?

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Mon May 14 2007 at 11:42 AM EST
More on: MLB, MLB Commissioner, Hall of Fame (all tags)

When speaking about the integrity of the game of baseball, we must address the very basic idea of baseball as being a team sport, which takes the efforts of every player to be in attendance for every game, whether or not they are actually participating on the field that day.

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Native American Prospects Hold Key Between Past & Present

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Fri Apr 06 2007 at 10:10 AM EST
More on: Native Americans, MLB, NCAA, Diversity, Youth Sports (all tags)

Although Native Americans entered the world of professional baseball 50 years prior to African Americans, who competed in the Negro Leagues, until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by signing his minor league contract with Dodgers in 1945, there have been less than 50 Native Americans of full Indian ancestry to compete in the Major Leagues since 1897.

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Why America's Pastime Is Losing Its Identity

By dgrassi, Section MLB
Posted on Mon Jun 05 2006 at 3:51 PM EST
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Major League Baseball must be held accountable, regardless of myriad cultural reasons attributed to children's lack of interest in baseball, predominantly in the inner city neighborhoods, for its lack of investment in them.

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