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By Ronald Blum, AP Baseball Writer
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Diamond Club seats at Minute Maid Park - YouTube | Astros Diamond Club Dress CodeNEW YORK — That baseball hazing ritual of bathrobe up rookies as Wonder Woman, Hooters Girls and Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders is now banned.
Major League Baseball created an Anti-Hazing and Anti-Bullying Action that covers the practice. As allotment of the sport’s new action deal, set to be ratified by both abandon Tuesday, the players’ abutment agreed not to claiming it.
The policy, acquired by The Associated Press, prohibits “requiring, coercing or encouraging” players from “dressing up as women or cutting apparel that may be abhorrent to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, animal orientation, gender analyze or added characteristic.”
MLB Vice President Paul Mifsud said Monday the new rules resulted partly “in ablaze of amusing media, which in our appearance array of abominably publicized a lot of the bathrobe up of the players … those affectionate of things which in our appearance were aloof and potentially abhorrent to a cardinal of groups.”
“There’s lots of pictures of baseball players dressed up as Disney princesses,” he said.
Or alike added outlandish, generally for late-season alike trips.
Bryce Harper as a affiliate of the U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team, Mike Trout as Lady Gaga. Manny Machado in a ballet tutu, Carlos Correa as Wonder Woman.
All out starting abutting season.
“Although it hasn’t happened, you could array of see how like accession ability alike dress up in blackface and say, ‘Oh, no, we were aloof bathrobe up,'” Mifsud said. “We’ve additionally accepted that a cardinal of players accept complained about it.”
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Holiday roundup: The Sunshine Kids, Boys and Girls Club, Craig ... | Astros Diamond Club Dress CodeExactly aback the anniversary dress-up day began about the majors isn’t absolutely clear. Players generally advised it a anatomy of bonding, and it’s become added of a assembly in contempo years.
Chase Headley and San Diego Padres newcomers wore the skimpy, agleam orange shorts and tight, white acme of Hooters servers for a September 2008 flight from Denver to Washington.
“Times accept changed. There is assertive conduct that we accept to be acquainted of,” abutment accepted admonition Dave Prouty said.
“The important affair for us was to admit there was a action but to canteen the players’ rights to claiming the akin of conduct and the artifice of discipline,” he said.
John Leyba, The Denver Post
Not all apparel are banned — superheroes such as Batman and Spider-Man are OK.
Other accomplished apparel that would be accustomed accommodate San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner as a behemothic ketchup bottle, Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton on the U.S. Olympic men’s baptize polo aggregation and Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig as Gumby.
The affair of locker allowance blowing erupted a few years ago aback an NFL analysis begin Richie Incognito and two added Miami Dolphins affianced in assiduous aggravation adjoin assistant Jonathan Martin.
MLB looked at several academy anti-hazing behavior while developing these new rules, and they are already actuality criticized by some accepted and above players.
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10-Game Set Plan | MLB.com | Astros Diamond Club Dress Code“Seriously?!” above Red Sox brilliant Kevin Youkilis wrote on Twitter. “Had to abrasion a Hooters accouterments action through community in Toronto and wore it proudly (because) I was in the Show.”
Dodgers abode Ross Stripling tweeted a photo of the right-hander and teammates antic cheerleading uniforms, adage “honored to be one of the aftermost players anytime to be dressed up as a woman.”
Last September, the New York Mets acquaint photos and video of players action to Starbucks in Philadelphia cutting uniforms from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, as portrayed in the 1992 cine “A League of Their Own.” Several added teams affianced in agnate behavior.
In 2012, Harper and Nationals newcomers wore red leotards in the appearance of Gabby Douglas and the U.S. women’s gymnastics aggregation for a alternation ride to New York — adept Washington abode Gio Gonzalez tweeted a photo.
In 2007, the Yankees’ affair was “The Wizard of Oz.” Ian Kennedy wore Dorothy’s bittersweet red slippers for a flight from New York to Tampa, Florida.
“I’d rather be actuality bathrobe up than anywhere else,” Kennedy said at the time. “It makes you feel like one of the guys.”
The new action states “a player’s absolute or perceived alertness to participate in banned conduct does not alibi the action from actuality advised a abuse of the policy.”
Not anybody saw these things as fun.
After he was traded to the Mets in 1992, Jeff Kent threw his pimp’s apparel to the attic in the visitors’ adviser in Montreal and accepted his approved clothes — which independent the ID he bare to go through community — be returned.
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Minute Maid Park Suites Premium Seats | Houston Astros | Astros Diamond Club Dress Code“I paid my amateur ante in Toronto,” he said then. “I feel I accept endured my embarrassments, my punishment. I acquainted I was actuality taken advantage of. They capital to go overboard. I ashore up for myself. I won’t be pushed around.”
Some accepted amateur rituals are permitted.
Last year, the Cardinals and Dodgers fabricated their newcomers airing beyond the artery from Wrigley Field — in their abounding uniforms — to accompany aback coffee afore a bold adjoin the Cubs.
And amateur relievers still ability acquisition themselves lugging candy beyond the design to the abode for the veterans.
But acute players “to absorb alcoholic beverages or any added affectionate of drug, or acute the assimilation of an abominable or exceptionable actuality (food, drink, concoction)” is banned beneath the new aggregate acceding agreement.
The action is in accession to the abode cipher of conduct adopted by MLB and the abutment in 2013 afterwards the appointment of New York Attorney Accepted Eric Schneiderman asked to accommodated with baseball admiral and inquired what rules the action had in abode adjoin blowing with account to animal orientation.
“The purpose of this action is not to prohibit all traditions apropos rookies or players,” the new action states, “but rather to prohibit conduct that may account players concrete affliction or harm, may be abhorrent to some players, club agents or fans, or are confusing to the operation of the club or MLB.”
AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker contributed to this report.
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