Balls, Strikes, Bets, and Billions: Major League Baseball Adopts Automated Ball Strike System
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash Professional sports leagues in the United States increasingly find themselves operating in a landscape where sports betting has become mainstream. Since the Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports gambling in Murphy v. NCAA seven years ago, leagues have flipped their approach to gambling from a self-preservation-inspired avoidance of the industry to an open-armed embrace. In the context of this shift, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision...