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One Strike And You're Out: Alcohol In The Major League Baseball Clubhouse, Steven B. Berneman
One Strike And You're Out: Alcohol In The Major League Baseball Clubhouse, Steven B. Berneman
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
In the past decade, much has been written about Major League Baseball's (MLB) mistaken policies regarding performance-enhancing substance abuse by players. MLB executives are shortsighted, however, if they believe that steroids are the only substances being abused by players. Along with performance-enhancing drugs, professional baseball has a long-standing history of alcohol abuse. Steroids may provide better headlines--Congress has never held an investigation into alcohol abuse by professional athletes--but professional baseball faces a real danger from the unchecked liability of allowing players to overindulge at the ballpark and drive home shortly thereafter. By serving beer in the clubhouse after games, clubs …