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11 Jan 2014, 9:00 am by P. Andrew Torrez
  To understand that, we need to understand the legal landscape that applies to major league baseball players. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 5:11 am by admin
His star rose quickly after he appeared as Willie Mays Hayes in the baseball spoof, Major League. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 6:45 am by Beth Graham
NFL and Players Association Agree to Use a Third Party Arbitrator Following Positive HGH Tests A number of Major League Baseball players have faced suspension in recent months over alleged Human Growth Hormone (“HGH”) use. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
The 1998 Major League Baseball season will forever be remembered for “The Chase,” first by Ken Griffey, Jr., and finally between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, to top Roger Maris’s home-run record of 61. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 1:52 pm by Beth Graham
The independent arbitrator who is now considering an appeal over Major League Baseball (MLB) player Alex Rodriguez’s unprecedented 211-game suspension, Fredric Horowitz, will reportedly issue a decision to uphold, reduce, or toss the penalty in the near future. [read post]
Williams was the last player in Major League Baseball to bat over .400 in a single season (.406 in 1941). [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 5:32 pm by Dan Kirkpatrick
 Baseball, basketball and hockey fans were not similarly unhappy because, unlike NFL games, TV coverage of MLB, NBA and NHL games were not all pooled at the league level; rather, TV coverage of the majority of non-football games was subject to contracts negotiated between the individual teams and local TV stations. [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 5:06 am by Jon Gelman
However, no information is available to the OLS to quantify the number of political subdivisions affected.Found onRelated articlesFirst Major League Baseball player diagnosed with CTE (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)What we know about football and repetitive brain trauma (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)The Proposed Burn Pit Registry Questionnaire Published on the Internet (burnpitclaims.blogspot.com)Head injuries in one football season cause measurable brain damage… [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 1:55 am by Jon Gelman
This concern was heightened this week by reports that the brain of the late major league baseball player Ryan Freel showed symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative condition. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 8:43 am
Here is the abstract.The recent blockbuster 42 romanticizes the role of major league baseball in the civil rights movement. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 12:21 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post iss shared from cnn.com  .When he was on the baseball field, Ryan Freel was unafraid to fling his body, and his head, into plays -- diving after balls and crashing into outfield walls.That fearlessness earned the undersized Freel a spot in the big leagues, as well as a raft of concussions.Now, nearly a year after his death, Freel has the distinction of being the first Major League Baseball player to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic… [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 3:16 am by Jon Gelman
In the first step to formally eradicating a thrilling but dangerous staple of the game — and an emphatic response to the concussion crisis that has gripped other sports — Major League Baseball’s rules committee voted Wednesday to eliminate home-plate collisions. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 9:23 am by Employment Lawyers
A day prior to this appearance, he had already began a string of retirements for another two months.[14][15][16]April 6, 1987: The Cleveland Indians, with Joe Carter and Cory Snyder, were featured in the cover with the headline "Indian Uprising", and being predicted as the best team in the American League. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 9:08 am
Although they don’t get the attention that surrounds injuries in football and other heavy-contact sports, baseball injuries can be serious and can affect players from the Major Leagues all the way down to the tee-ball set. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 4:00 am by David Markus
  The Herald has the details:Leonys Martin Tapanes seemed like yet another Cuban baseball player with tremendous promise when he signed a $15.5 million contract with the Texas Rangers in 2011.But there apparently is a darker story behind Martin’s climb from poverty to Major League Baseball success.The U.S. attorney’s office in Miami on Wednesday charged three people — Eliezer Lazo, 40, formerly of Miami Lakes, Joel Martinez Hernandez, 37,… [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 2:53 pm by Robert Kreisman
  Major League Baseball is the only professional sport that has the benefit of an exemption under federal antitrust laws. [read post]
27 Nov 2013, 10:33 am by The Clinton Law Firm
If each went to trial, one-half of the litigants would lose, just as one-half of the major league baseball teams lose every single day. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 9:00 pm by Nietzer
  A potential class action lawsuit filed last month by a volunteer against Major League Baseball (“MLB”) in New York federal court – Chen v Major League Baseball– sets the stage for this latest battleground. [read post]