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Major League Baseball has a "unique" plan to fight cancer

Posted 5/29/2008 on Gaslamp Ball: Front Page Posts

As Biz of Baseball points out , Major League Baseball is committing $10 million to the Stand Up To Cancer program. “This initiative has presented an historic and unique plan to fight this deadly disease, and it is a privilege for me and Major League Baseball to join this magnificent effort,” said Commissioner Selig.  “We have pledged many of our valuable ...

MLB Wants Your Lunch Money Too

Posted 5/27/2008 on The Slanch Report

Baseball is awesome, we’re agreed on this. However, MLB: you need to stop being a giant douchebag of a corporation. The latest example is a Little League in Tinley Park, Illinois that was recently sent a cease-and-desist letter threatening a lawsuit if the league didn’t remove all MLB team names from the uniforms of the kids. It seems that for MLB, the fact that these ...

How to read an MLB.com article if you must

Posted 5/22/2008 on XM MLB Chat

From Helene Elliott interview in Sports Media Guide, 9/12/06: "Q. Are writers for the league websites doing real journalism? Mlb.com for example? A. It's an arm of Major League Baseball. If you are an mlb.com correspondent and you start writing things critical of Bud Selig do you think you would keep your job? It may not be edited by MLB but MLB would remember what you wrote. When it ...

Baseball May Try Instant Replay During Arizona Fall League

Posted 5/22/2008 on FanHouse

What a difference a week makes. Last Thursday, Bud Selig was no closer to adopting instant replay than he was to adopting Barry Bonds. Then, whiz bam, three home runs are ruled incorrectly by umpires in four days and, whaddya know, now baseball is talking about giving review a try during the Arizona Fall League. Jayson Stark of ESPN is reporting that the league is starting to make plans now ...

MLB donating $10M to cancer research (AP)

Published 5/28/2008 on Yahoo! Sports - MLB News

Major League Baseball is making a $10 million donation to "Stand Up to Cancer," a fundraising charity for cancer research, commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday. "We made a commitment," Selig said. "And we're going to do a lot of work in every one of ...