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A Major League Baseball roster is a list of players who are allowed, by league agreement, to play for a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. Each MLB team maintains two rosters: an active roster of players eligible to participate in an MLB game, and an expanded roster encompassing the active roster plus additional reserve players.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, federal judge and Commissioner of Baseball (1920–44).. Prior to 1920, players were banned by the decision of a committee. There were 14 players banned from 1865 to 1920; of those, 12 were banned for association with gambling or attempting to fix games, one was banned for violating the reserve clause, and one was banned for making disparaging remarks.
July 25, 2024 at 1:09 AM. Robbie Ray returned to the mound Wednesday for the first time in more than a year. Although his strange no-hitter bid came up short, Ray successfully led the San ...
The color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 (with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established). Racial segregation in professional baseball was sometimes called a ...
Byron Buxton, Jackson Chourio and Giancarlo Stanton are among the make-or-break players for this season's second half. (Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports) (Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports) 10. Boston Red Sox, 54-46.
Everyone knows finding sleepers is important on draft day, but it's just as crucial to avoid taking potential busts. Let's examine some players to fade this hockey season.
The injured reserve list (abbr. IR list) is a designation used in North American professional sports leagues for athletes who suffer injuries and become unable to play. The exact name of the list varies by league; it is known as "injured reserve" in the National Football League (NFL) and National Hockey League (NHL), the "injured list" in the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the injured ...
The first major instance of permanent bans being used throughout the NBA revolved around the case of the CCNY point-shaving scandal that primarily happened in 1951. As a result of this incident, 36 different collegiate players (including a few that were either already in the NBA or were drafted into the NBA by this time) and one NBA referee were reported to have been involved with this case at ...