A sport that has a commissioner’s workplace solely due to a playing scandal that rocked the game 100 years in the past may quickly have sports activities betting home windows at a major-league ballpark within the very metropolis that scandal came about, in line with an ESPN report.
With the latest passage of Illinois’ new sports activities betting legislation, the Cubs are among the many Chicago groups planning to open a sportsbook at places inside Wrigley Field and simply outdoors the ballpark, experiences ESPN, citing “multiple sources.”
The choices being thought of internally by multiple Chicago staff, mentioned the report, embrace automated kiosks, betting home windows and in-stadium sportsbooks.
Cubs officers declined to remark to ESPN for its report and wouldn’t remark Saturday earlier than the staff’s sport in opposition to the Dodgers.
Major League Baseball, which banned all-time hits chief Pete Rose for all times over playing on baseball, prohibits sportsbooks in its stadiums.
The MLB commissioner’s workplace was created within the aftermath of the “Black Sox” scandal that additionally resulted in eight White Sox gamers banned for all times for throwing the 1919 World Series.
ESPN quotes an announcement from an MLB spokesperson saying the league expects to work with groups as they navigate the “rapidly evolving sports betting landscape in a socially responsible manner.”