Round Two: Love it or hate it, it’s time for change in baseball

Round Two: Love it or hate it, it’s time for change in baseball

- Tom Hardesty

Major League Baseball is at a crossroads.

The oldest major professional sports league in the world hates change. It took 71 years before Black people were allowed to play, and some fans in New York City still haven’t recovered from their beloved Giants and Dodgers leaving for California after the 1957 season.

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