opinions

May 12, 2010

The New York Times

By Doug Glanville

As we all know, in the arid world of Arizona, political temperatures have been rising about a new law that makes it a crime to be without immigration papers, and relies heavily on “reasonable suspicion.” The reaction within the professional sports world would have been unheard of in my playing days, and underlines a real generational gap. In an unprecedented show of solidarity, players, owners and front-office personnel are uniting, disgusted by Arizona’s approach to addressing concerns over the undocumented.