"Playing Ball" Major League Baseball's Way

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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 4/4/2008 on www.chicagosportsreview.com [flag]
With all that was going on last summer it was difficult to deal with some of the larger issues of and problems with Major League Baseball. This spring and summer it is time to make time to dig in an explore MLB and baseball, in general, much more deeply. The following is the first of many articles and commentaries to be written this spring and summer on our National Pastime.  ... [link]

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CSR: Wilson: “Playing Ball” Major League Baseball’s Way
Published 4/4/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
CSR: Wilson: “Playing Ball” Major League Baseball’s Way Reporting from the glitzy Rodentia Room at the MLB offices...D.K. Wilson smells a rat. It smelled like money. So much more money than the public knows, than many baseball writers will let on that it knows. It smelled like tightly controlled information, pablum dressed as “real news” and disseminated to a public that trusts the source far too much. It smelled like racism. With so few black writers on the roster of the Baseball Writers of America, stories about black players are dwindling. Stories about former black players ...