Mighty Bernie at bat? Sanders makes pitch for minor leagues
BURLINGTON, Iowa — Take Bernie out to the ball game?Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics in his hometown, Burlington.Defending low-profile ball clubs in far-flung places more fervently than anyone in the crowded […]
