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- Title
Major league baseball and the exploitation of Latin American children: Confronting baseball's greatest sin.
- Abstract
On April 1, 2021, Major League Baseball celebrated its 145th Opening Day. Across the 30 clubs, 256 players represented 20 different countries and territories outside of the United States. The 256 players accounted for 28.3% of total players on Opening Day rosters and inactive lists. This number of foreign‐born players marked the second highest all‐time total on Opening Day rosters for a full season. Like never before, baseball has become global. Fans are routinely enthralled by the passion and flare these players bring to the game, but few are aware of the childhood exploitation they must overcome along the way. Key points for the family court community: Under Attachment 46 of Major League Baseball's Basic Agreement, teams are expressly prohibited from signing or negotiating contracts with international amateur players until they have reached 16 years of age.Contrary to the terms of Attachment 46, teams routinely circumvent Baseball's Basic Agreement by making "handshake" deals with children under the age of 16.Many of these "handshake" agreements dictate the lives of Latin American children, who incur great risk to train for their aspiring baseball careers.Teams maintain the sole discretion to alter or back out of "handshake" deals at any time.When "handshake" deals fail, the children are left without recourse.
- Subjects
MAJOR League Baseball Players Association; MAJOR League Baseball (Organization); LATIN American athletes; AMATEUR athletes; CONTRACTS; FAMILY law courts; THIRD parties (Law)
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2022, Vol 60, Issue 4, p901
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fcre.12682