Curt Flood set off the free-agent revolution 50 years ago this week with a 128-word letter to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, two paragraphs that pretty much ended the career of a World Series champion regarded as among the sport’s stars ...

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The drug-test records of more than 100 Major League Baseball players seized as part of a federal investigation into the use of steroids must be returned by the government, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The seizures in 2004 of records ...

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The New York Yankees don’t have to produce a catalog of subpoenaed documents tied to tax breaks and $950 million of low-cost financing for the Major League Baseball team’s new stadium, a judge ruled. The subpoena, issued by the New ...

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The New York Yankees agreed not to restrict spectators’ movements during the playing of “God Bless America” at its new stadium to end a suit brought by a man who was thrown out last year for trying to use the ...

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