Glendale Desert Dogs’ Matt Beaty receives a high five from teammate Logan Hill in an Arizona Fall League game, October 2017. (Zachary Lucy / Four Seam Images via AP)
This week we speak to longtime labor organizer, writer, and former head of TransAfrica Bill Fletcher about why the time is now for minor-league baseball players to form a union. We also have Choice Words about the collision of the #blacklivesmatter movement and basketball in Sacramento, a Just Stand Up and Sit Yo Ass Down award to the Notre Dame Women’s Basketball team and NCAA President Mark Emmert respectively, Kaepernick Watch, and more!
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Dave ZirinTwitterDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is also the coproducer and writer of the new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL.