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MLB Bans Forcing Rookies to Dress as Women

Taking a cue from the No Fun League (NFL), MLB is banning the traditional hazing of rookies dressing as women. The Associated Press broke the news late Monday night that the anti-hazing rules are part of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that was agreed to last week.

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Mets rookies dressed up in “A League of a Their Own” uniforms this season.

MLB vice president Paul Mifsud (whoever he is) said the new PC new rules resulted partly “in light of social media, which in our view sort of unfortunately publicized a lot of the dressing up of the players… those kind of things which in our view were insensitive and potentially offensive to a number of groups.