Major League Baseball Must Strike Out the National Origin Discrimination in the First-Year Player Draft

By Daniel Hauptman   Originally published in the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review – Volume 30, Issue 2. An unabridged version of this Comment (30 LOY. L.A. ENT. L. REV. 263 (2010)) is available at: http://elr.lls.edu.   Under current Major League Baseball (MLB) rules, if an amateur player is a resident of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or other U.S. territory, he can sign with a major league team only after being selected by the team in the annual First-Year P