Punishment
A person who has been banned from Major League Baseball is barred from:
- employment with MLB or one of its franchises or affiliated minor leagues as a player, coach, or manager, or in the front office
- acting as a sports agent for an MLB player, coach, or manager
- maintaining business ties with MLB or one of its franchises, e.g., a banned person must purchase a ticket in order to attend a game
- The exception to this is if MLB or one of its teams invites the banned person to participate in an event such as a public recognition ceremony.
- induction to the Hall of Fame, whether the person is living or deceased
Terms such as "lifetime ban" and "permanent ban" are misnomers, as a banned person may be reinstated (i.e., have the ban removed) on the decision of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and in the case of Hall of Fame induction the ban can extend beyond a person's lifetime. Additionally, a ban does not forbid a person from participating in baseball leagues that are not affiliated with MLB.
Read more about this topic: List Of People Banned From Major League Baseball
Famous quotes containing the word punishment:
“A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their own back; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)