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Repeatedly in the 1980s, MLB owners colluded to keep player salaries down. Over multiple instances the owners were found to have stolen nearly $400 million from the players. When the Major League Baseball players struck in 1994, the owners were found to have committed unfair labor practices in attempting to keep player salaries down again.
0–9. 1877 Louisville Grays scandal; 1904 World Series; 1910 Chalmers Award; 1919 World Series; 1957 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1984 Braves–Padres bean brawl
In December 2009, Sports Illustrated named baseball's steroid scandal of performance-enhancing drugs as the number one sports story of the decade of the 2000s. [ 2 ] The current penalties, adopted on March 28, 2014, are 80 games for a first offense, 162 games for a second offense, and a permanent suspension ("lifetime ban") for a third. [ 3 ]
The eight "Chicago Black Sox" The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB) in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payment from a gambling syndicate, possibly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein.
Los Angeles Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani has found himself in the middle of a baseball scandal. Just weeks before Major League Baseball’s 2024 season officially kicked off, Ohtani’s ...
This year's wave of MLB gambling scandal has reached the umpire ranks. MLB umpire Pat Hoberg has been disciplined for a violation of the league's gambling rules, according to The Athletic.Hoberg ...
Tampa Bay Rays player Wander Franco is under investigation by the MLB after allegedly being in a relationship with a minor. On August 13, rumors swirled via social media that Franco, 22, was ...
The nonprofit is also part of MLB’s joint committee on domestic violence, a collaboration between the players’ union and the commissioner’s office. [ 4 ] Prior to MLB's 2015 policy on domestic violence, no club took disciplinary action against a player accused of or arrested for domestic violence until the Boston Red Sox suspended Wil ...