Major League Baseball (MLB) - American or Un-American  

I agree that a lot of it is about the money - I am certain that the foreign players are probably not making as much as their American counterparts.

But, legal immigration is supposed to be filling job openings that there are not enough qualified American applicants to fill. I, personally, do not beleive this is the case here.

"a player could forget his papers at the hotel, get pulled over, and be thrown in jail for not having his papers on hand." - all the player would need to do is call his coach, have him pick up his papers and take them to the jail. IF the only charge the player is being held on is lack of papers the player would be released. Small delay and no big hassle - no more than if a legal citizen is picked up for driving without a valid drivers license if they are idiots and leave their licence home. - They should be treated better than our own citizens?

"he doesn't think it's the MLB's fault" - are you honestly saying that we do not have enough athletic youth to fill professional basketball, football, and baseball teams in this country? One, the physical types that are needed for basketball and football are not the types that make good baseball players. And, did you ever stop to think that the reason they may not be pursuing baseball careers is because they are repeatedly seeing immigrants being placed in these slots simply because they are willing to play for less money.

"It's the family members of these players who may want to show up at an allstar game held in Arizona that may have to worry." - so, the family members are here illegally? Or, the family members are in violation of federal law which requires them to keep their papers with them?

The law requiring immigrants to have their papers available is not a law that Arizona made up. The law that Arizona passed only requires state, county, and local police officers to assist in enforcing the federal law which requires this.

Current estimates are that there are 12 million illegal immigrants from all countries currently in the US. There are not enough federal officers in the entire country to enforce that one law even if they had no other federal laws to enforce - kidnapping, counterfeiting, etc. Every other federal crime can be and is enforced by state, county, and local police either on their own or assisting federal officers; why should immigration laws be any different?

Baseball, like football and basketball, takes great hand eye coronation, and reflexes to play well. Multi-sport child athletes aren't exactly a rare thing.

You've got little wannabe Bo Jackson's all around this country who play soccer, baseball, and basketball. They don't have to be super stars, just interested and have some skill when playing these games.

Aside from the abundance of downtime in the game, there's nothing turning kids in America away from playing it except the lack of equipment, and difficulty of gathering enough people to form two teams. like I said, kids in other countries improvise to get it done, but America kids see other sports as options. You have a bunch of poor kids in bad situations try wanting to get out of that mess. They are more driven, and see baseball as the way out

How can you be sure the Dominican players, and others are getting low balled with their contracts? Or are you one of these people who just like to assume that anyone from another country is just here to steal jobs?

Surely the foreign players in Major League Baseball can hold their own against the red blooded American whites, and the handful of black players who chose to play the game.

If you disagree with what someone has to say, why not take their entire statement into account? taking individual sentences, and using bold in a condescending fashion doesn't really help to get your point across. that's something a bitter old politician would do when met with a differing viewpoint.

Cherry picking isn't cool unless you're handing out ice cream sundaes as well.