In the long grass?

For decades UK devotees of the sport that enjoys near religious status in the US have struggled to convert us Brits to follow the Dodgers, Yankees or the Red Sox rather than Man United or Chelsea. Despite the ‘little leagues’ for kids and baseball games in London parks involving US investment banks and law firms, baseball has barely made an inroad to our national consciousness compared to games that we brought the world such as football, cricket or rugby.

That begs the question as to whether so called Baseball Arbitration- which purportedly takes its name from a practice that arose in relation to salary arbitration in Major League Baseball - will take off within the UK or fall by the wayside like its sporting namesake.

Winner takes all

With so called Baseball Arbitration each party to a dispute submits what they regard as their best offer to the arbitrator who will choose one of the two positions without modification as the basis of the award - In effect