Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over.

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Description: Opening day of the Major League Baseball season, which falls on Thursday after being delayed for a week by a labor dispute, is as good an occasion as any for fans of the game to come to terms with certain hard facts. I am talking, of course, about the inevitable future in which professional baseball is nationalized and put under the authority of some large federal entity — the Library of Congress, perhaps, or more romantically, the National Park Service.

Source: NYTimes.com

Date: Apr 06, 2022

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/opinion/baseball-nationalize.html

Questions for discussion:

  • What are the arguments made favoring a dramatic change in the management and financing of baseball?
  • Does this make sense to you?
  • What other solutions are there to the decline in the league?