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Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 13, 2000

Rocker's Rocker Is None of Baseball's Business

The situation involving John Rocker of the Atlanta Braves is the latest example of how sports disregard employment rights to score points with the public.

By Jeffrey K. Winikow
        Major League Baseball remains one this country's most visible workplaces, yet professional sports often try to operate outside of the legal boundaries that apply to everyone else. The recent case of John Rocker, the Atlanta Braves' "resident racist," is but the latest example of how sports willingly disregard employment rights in order to score points with t...

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