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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 9h

Scalping #WorldSeries Tix... Reports on 10/3/1919 said Federal Agents in Cincinnati begun an investigation of scalped World Series tix Those buying themp from scalpers believed they would be summoned to the IRS Collector for examination #BaseballandtheLaw 838 - 56

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about ditching court this week to watch #MLB playoffs? Hope you get a judge like Oklahoma District Judge R.J. Charlton who announced he was postponing his docket so as not to interfere with the 1929 Philadelphia A’s v Chicago Cubs #WorldSeries #BaseballandtheLaw 14

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#WorldSeries It was reported on 10/2/1926 that Branch Rickey, Cardinals VP, warned the public against buying tickets for the Fall Classic "from other than legitimate sources as a precaution against counterfeit tickets" “Attorneys in the Hall of Fame” #BaseballandtheLaw 838-56

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just in time for the #MLB playoffs “Attorneys in the Baseball Hall of Fame” Go to Amazon and order your copy today

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 9h

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I took my grandson to his first Marlins game yesterday, hoping to be able to explain to him that life is full of disappointments. However, the @marlins.com won, and now I’m going to have to explain to him the unrealistic expectations of life. #GoFish

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10/1/1919 - 30k fans saw Game 1 of the '19 World Series at Redland Field, where the Reds beat the #BlackSox (a story for another day) Other stories: John Philip Sousa led a band playing the SSB before the game; 10's of thousands more "watched" the game on "Play-O-Graphs" #BaseballandtheLaw 417

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just in time for the #MLB playoffs “Attorneys in the Baseball Hall of Fame” Go to Amazon and order your copy today

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

106 years ago today, 9/28/1920, newspapers first reported the #BlackSox scandal; saying 8 members of the White Sox fixed the 1919 World Series. Clips: Chicago Tribune & Enquirer #BaseballandtheLaw 99-104

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Raise your hand if you had this on your B-I-N-G-O card

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The birth of the #WhiteSox Western League (the forerunner of the AL) met in Chicago on 9/27/1895 & awarded new franchises Charles Comiskey was among the new owners. Comiskey's team was the St Paul Saints, which he eventually moved and became the White Sox #BaseballandtheLaw 90

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Raise your hand if you had this on your B-I-N-G-O card

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you @marlins.com for a one-of-a-kind on field experience for “Jerseys Off Our Backs” right after Eury Perez’s one-hit shutout! Thank you Cade Gibson! Great to meet you. Thanks for your jersey. Congratulations on a wonderful season! See you back next year — Lou

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Baseball⚾️ownership After fighting over the ownership of Sammy Sosa’s 62nd home run ball of the ‘98 season, 2 Cubs fans embroiled in a lawsuit over its ownership decided to give the ball to Sosa on 9/25/98 Would you have given the ball to him? #BaseballandtheLaw 150-51; 692

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fans Balk at codified Baseball Rule… Illinois passed a law on 9/24/92 codifying the almost 100 year old "baseball rule" The law, lobbied heavily by the Cubs and White Sox, protects owners from being sued by fans injured by foul balls hit into the stands #BaseballandtheLaw 576-602

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking a knee "this is the best country on the planet. My hand over my heart symbolized that I am, and will forever be, an American citizen. But my kneeling is what's getting the attention because I'm kneeling for the people that don't have a voice" Bruce Maxwell Oakland A’s 9/23/17

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Less fans then at a Marlins game… 60 years ago… With only 413 fans at Yankee Stadium on 9/22/1966 (the smallest crowd in its history), broadcaster Red Barber told his audience, "The crowd is the story not the game..." Barber was allegedly fired for his comments #BaseballandtheLaw 418, 670

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not enough for a Minyan, but it was a start... According to the Jewish Baseball Museum on 9/21/1941, the NY Giants were the 1st #MLB team to start 4 Jewish ✡️ players in the same game Harry Danning (C), Harry Feldman (P), Morrie Arnovich (LF), & Sid Gordon (CF) #BaseballandtheLaw 620, 643

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ford Frick* elected baseball Czar by owners Frick's most criticized decision was to relegate the 61 homeruns Roger Maris hit in the '61 season with an * Elected on 9/20/51, during his 14 year rule, he lead the expansion of the AL & NL from 8 to 10 teams #BaseballandtheLaw 722

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Union Busting American League President Joe Cronin fired umpires Al Salerno & Bill Valentine on 9/16/1968. The pair claimed they were let go for trying to organize AL umps for collective bargaining and to form the MLBUA.com #BaseballandtheLaw 52, 243

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International Women's Baseball Center @iwbc4me.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's that time of year again! The SABR / IWBC Women in Baseball Conference is headed your way, Oct. 9-11 on Zoom. Schedule coming soon. More information and registration available at sabr.org/women-in-baseball-conference/ #WomeninBaseball #BaseballConference #SABR #StepUptotheSport

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An Offer He Refused... Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on 9/15/1915 the Federal League was offering NY Giants Manager John McGraw a 5-year $200k contract if he would "jump" leagues. McGraw said no, even though the Giants would finish last in 1915. #BaseballandtheLaw 63, 561, 628

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We'd like a seat at your table, please On 9/14/1900 it was reported the Players Protective Association, an early form of a Players Union, was seeking a formal meeting with the National League to discuss "certain inequalities," i.e. reserve clause & pay #BaseballandtheLaw 665

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Judge After Our Own Heart... An Oklahoma Judge announced on 9/13/1929 that he was postponing his civil docket for the week of October 7 -14 in order that the docket of the Court not interfere with the 1929 World Series, yup, it really did happen... #BaseballandtheLaw 14

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looks like an afternoon mid-week Marlins game when they are in free-fall…

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“[F]or the ﬁrst time in the history of baseball the color line has been drawn...The Browns were in open revolt last night" p 1 ny times 9/12/1887 The St Louis Browns staged a mutiny refusing to play against the NY Cuban Giants, a prominent negro team #BaseballandtheLaw 627-2

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"An Act of Solidarity" ✡️🇮🇱 On 9/6/1972 Oakland Athletics Jewish players Ken Holtzman and Mike Epstein plus Reggie Jackson wore black armbands paying respect to the 11 #Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the Munich Olympics #BaseballandtheLaw 620, antisemitism

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nap Lajoie lost an early challenge to void the Baseball reserve clause. The court told Nap his actions were "a breach of good faith, for which there would be no adequate redress at law." Happy Birthday🎂 Nap, 9/5/1874 Phil Ball Club v Lajoie (Pa '02) #BaseballandtheLaw 34-38

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The lights are still on… Fish just 2.5 out of the final playoff spot with 22 games to play #BaseballandtheLaw #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The first night game💡… was played on September 2, 1880 in Hull, MA. Two department store teams played to a 16–16 tie. Northern Electric Light Co of Boston put on the game to show the feasibility of large-scale lighting #BaseballandtheLaw p 534 ⬇️ Boston Globe 9/3/1880

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fish are 3 games out with 23 to play… Keep the lights on #BaseballandtheLaw

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All Choked Up… Manger Suspended for Choking Umpire... On September 1, 1949, Miami Sun Sox Manager Pepper Martin was suspended for the remainder of the International League season and fined $100 for choking an umpire in a game played the week before in Havana, Cuba #BaseballandtheLaw 994

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My Baseball History @shoelesspodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#OnThisDay in baseball history

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am 12 going on 14... Age Cheating 8/31/2001, Little League took away all of the Rolando Paulino All-Stars LLWS wins when they learned pitching sensation Danny Almonte was 14 years old, not 12 as required by LL's rules. Almonte had pitched a perfect game in the LLWS. #BaseballandtheLaw 943

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Keeping the lights on… The Fish are just 3½ games out of the final playoff spot with 25 games to play. I hate them for giving me hope… but I love them for making me believe. Maybe, just maybe, this time the movie has a different ending! 🐟⚾️ #Marlins

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sorry Charlie #MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was sued by Athletics owner Charlie Finley for voiding his '76 player sales to Yankees & RedSox of Vida Blue, Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers 8/29/77, Dist Ct affirmed Kuhn's voiding of Finley's player sales #BaseballandtheLaw 207-13

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

On 8/28/1917 Brooklyn Robins owner Charles Ebbets went on trial for holding a Sunday baseball game and charging admission for a World War I charity. Four weeks later the Court found Ebbets guilty "Standard of established law shall remain in utmost integrity" #BaseballandtheLaw p 5-6

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In defending their racially discriminatory policy, a confidential 8/27/1946 #MLB report said: "It's simply respecting the contractual relationship between the Negro leagues and their players." A 1951 Congressional investigation made the memo public. #BaseballandtheLaw 631-33

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The 1st #MLB TV network game was broadcasted by NBC Sports on 8/26/39. Red Barber (UF Journalism School) called the Dodgers /@mReds doubleheader from the Carbird seat at #EbbetsField. 2 cameras were used; one behind home plate and one on the 3rd base line #BaseballandtheLaw 417-18

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What's a guy have to do to get a beer🍻around here? A bar owner sued "Rollie" Hemsley, star catcher for the St Louis Browns on 8/25/1934 alleging Hemsley threw a brick through the bar window after he was refused service early one morning. #BaseballandtheLaw 10, 83, 561 Beer

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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I think I now resemble the figure on my old friend Lenny Koppett's book jacket.

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

PETE ROSE RECEIVES LIFETIME BAN... "I have concluded that he bet on baseball." 8/24/89, BART GIAMATTI, #MLB commissioner statement on Pete Rose's lifetime banishment. Giamatti believed Rose bet on games, including those of the team he managed. #BaseballandtheLaw 107-12

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#BaseballandtheLaw⚾️🏛️ @baseballandlaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A fun interview talking about the great season the Marlins are having with Ed Kasputis of Baseball PhD Interview starts at about minute 29. youtu.be/864JmnsPE0g?...

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Episode 824 Miami Marlins

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