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MLB's new collective bargaining agreement fails to address players' biggest grievances

  • Written by Victor Matheson, Professor of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
imagePlayers voted to accept Major League Baseball's offer on a new labor deal, paving the way to end the 99-day lockout and salvage the season.AP Photo/Gregory Bull

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball,” second baseman Rogers Hornsby once said. “I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and...

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