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I run one of the original, Daniel Okrent fantasy baseball leagues that we started in 1988. Daniel Okrent named it Rotisserie baseball after the Rotisserie Restaurant in New York, where he penciled the first rules that became known as fantasy sports. Over the years, we learned how to spot baseball players who were on steroids. Their batting average leaped by as much as 80 points, and the power increase was obvious. We believe that McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds took high doses of steroids when they passed Babe Ruth's 60–home run record. Roger Maris obviously did not take steroids, but his...

Major League Baseball is scheduled to play its 2021 All-Star Game this summer at Truist Park, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Yet with less than a week to go until Opening Day, the MLB Players Association appears open to discussing whether or not the event should be relocated in response to recent legislative developments in the state. MLB Players Association director Tony Clark told the Boston Globe that the union body is "very much aware" of the bill signed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp on Thursday that overhauled the state's election laws. The bill includes "new restrictions on voting by mail...