Major League Baseball’s business ties with the sports betting industry is central to a new lawsuit alleging the league promoted wagers on fantasy platform DraftKings Inc. while failing to stem a Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal.
Major League Baseball became the first professional sports league to partner with DraftKings in 2013, a relationship that broadened to include promotions at ballparks and online. MLB also took an equity stake in DraftKings, which it sold privately last year.
This lawsuit wouldn’t “get off the ground” if not for the business ties between DraftKings and Major League Baseball, according to Marc Edelman, a law ...
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