Elephant Rumblings: Mateo Dealing With Injury, Fowler Expects To Be A Little Sore Too

A’s Coverage:

• How Dustin Fowler looked in first workout back from gruesome injury...
• Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart help open good-vibe A’s camp...

MLB News:

• Marlins to recognize shooting victims by wearing Stoneman Douglas caps...
• MLB Hot Stove: Red Sox, J.D. Martinez agree to reported five-year, $110M deal...
• Christian Yelich cites Jose Fernandez’s death as turning point for Marlins franchise...
• Don Mattingly says Bryce Harper off base to critique Marlins’ moves: ‘Take care of your own dugout’...
• Josh Donaldson expects to become free agent, not ‘eye to eye’ with Blue Jays on contact talks...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Lindbergh: The Sabermetric Movement’s Forgotten Foremother...
• The Physics of the Rarified Air of Spring Training...
• Tony Gwynn’s wrongful death lawsuit finally has a trial date set...
• Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, 80, hospitalized in Bay Area...
• Romano: The Rays are a disgrace to baseball...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1953 - The U.S. Court of Appeals rules that organized baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling. This effectively dismisses the antitrust suits of Jack Corbett and former Brooklyn Dodgers minor leaguer Walter Kowalski. The $300,000 suit of Corbett, the owner of the El Paso Texans, is based on his belief that he lost money when Major League Baseball prohibited him from signing several players suspended for participation in the Mexican League. Kowalski’s $150,000 suit is based on the general principles of the antitrust and restraint-of-trade laws. Their lawyer in these cases is Frederic Johnson, who also represents player Danny Gardella in his suit against Major League Baseball.
• 1980 - The Oakland Athletics sign Billy Martin to a two-year contract as manager. Martin, who was fired by the Yankees only four months earlier, will popularize the notion of “Billy Ball” with the A’s and lead the team to a split-season crown in 1981.

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