Baseball museum eyed for Scottsdale Stadium
Discloser: Rose Law Group represents Home: The Baseball Experience By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress A small piece of city property behind the left-field wall at Scottsdale Stadium could be transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of baseball in the Valley — if the city can find someone willing to pay for it. […]
Read More →Sports leagues taking steps to further protect fans from balls, bats and pucks
A sign warning fans of the danger of flying objects is posted behind home plate at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. /Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images The Arizona Diamondbacks installed netting at Chase Field to the end of the dugouts in 2018 but have not made a decision on extending it farther By Sarah Farrell […]
Read More →Court gives baseball players’ right to sue Arizona wages bill
Colorado Rockies spring training at Salt River Field, Talking Stick/Team photo Law deals with minor league players during spring training By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via PinalCentral A federal appeals court has given a key victory to players on minor league teams the right to sue to be paid the minimum wage while […]
Read More →MLB accused of juicing baseballs following historic home run surge
Is baseball being turned into a joke? / Illustration: Lazaro Gamio / Axios By Kendall Baker | Axios [Monday’s] Home Run Derby news cycle began with All-Star Justin Verlander emphatically saying that the league is juicing the baseballs, adding more fuel to an already raging fire. By the numbers: MLB teams are projected to hit […]
Read More →The brain cancer that keeps killing baseball players
By Jeré Longman | The New York Times PHILADELPHIA — Since Darren Daulton succumbed to brain cancer on Aug. 6, heartfelt tributes have honored the way he led a raucous Phillies team to the World Series in 1993. And unanswered questions have surfaced about the way he died. Daulton and several prominent contemporaries in baseball […]
Read More →Diamondbacks’ housecleaning could produce baseball’s first female GM
By Trisha Garcia and Jeanna Berg | Cronkite News The Arizona Diamondbacks cleaned house Monday, not renewing the contract of general manager Dave Stewart and firing manager Chip Hale. That opened the door for perhaps the first female general manager in baseball history. Asked what qualifications he was looking for in a new general manager […]
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