The AMLU membership has voted to reject minor league baseball's contract offer and voted to not accept offers to minor league spring training absent improvements in the spring training working terms and conditions.
Quotes about baseballs (16 Quotes)
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.
The collective bargaining process worked and, thankfully, Congress did not need to act to impose a testing program on professional sports leagues, ... This is a great day for baseball. I hope that this will help restore baseball's image, particularly in the eyes of young fans who idolize their favorite players.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
The Youth Baseball Academy will serve as a sanctuary for kids interested not only in how the game is played but how the game can be a positive and productive part of their lives. The Compton academy is part of Major League Baseball's Urban Youth Initiative, which is an ambitious and important project that is designed to grow the game and to help inner city kids make better lives for themselves.
Baseballs haven't changed. They've been the same color for years and years. Now there is not really a color barrier in baseball the way there was back then. So let's recognize the guys that played the game the right way and deserve the recognition that they're getting.
Some of them said the decision to keep it open was motivated by baseball's desire for aerial TV pictures. Unfortunately for this argument, ... Fox does not have a blimp, although it does have several tall cameramen.
It may not be so easy in the future. Robert Manfred, baseball's executive vice president for labor relations and human resources, says baseball will suspend and fine repeat minor league offenders this season. The Padres have administered their own three-strikes-and-you're-out steroid policy for the past five years, though they do not test in the off-season, either. The word's out in our organization, but the trend we're seeing is that most of the players who tested positive were in Class A ball, ... That tells me the problem is spreading fast. I think it's prevalent in college and high school--even before we get them.
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
It seems like he's getting a real good look at the baseball. We talk about that day in, day out. And if you talk to anybody that's run in to a pretty good streak going, they're saying that. He's squaring up a lot of baseballs right now.
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
The expectations are probably higher than they've ever been around here as far as baseball's concerned. Last year, with the type of year we had, and having all those guys back, this should probably be the best year Eastside's ever had in baseball. There's no reason why it shouldn't be.
If we had a lineup that had seven guys with the potential to hit 25 to 30 home runs, it would be a bit more sit back and slug baseballs. We don't have that ability. I think it's great. I think it's baseball. I love it.