Here's what bothered me most about baseball's rookie-hazing tradition: It was another example of athletes operating as though they live outside the basic norms of society.
And baseball, for whatever reason, is the one sport where this stuff is most visible and most defended. For all its bluster about being a gentleman's game that must be respected (or else!), baseball sure has had an affinity for punishment and humiliation in the name of "team."
Thankfully, part of this should go away because of a new Anti-Hazing and Anti-Bullying Policy, which prohibits "requiring, coercing or encouraging" players from "dressing up as women or wearing costumes that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identify or other characteristic.