News & Politics  We Are All Latinos Now: Six Reasons Why
Baseball's All-Stars Will Boycott the 2011 All-Star Game
ramirez.jpgOne of the subplots of the Lakers-Suns NBA playoff
series, which began Monday, is sure to be the Los Angeles City
Council's vote last week to boycott Los Suns' home state of
Arizona. Don't expect the Lakers themselves to join the fight.
(Their wives are another matter.) But the idea of pro athletes
joining a boycott over Arizona's misguided immigration law isn't
far-fetched. In fact, though it's still more than a year away,
momentum is already building for a player boycott of Major
League Baseball's 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.  Baseball is
the natural sport for such a showdown. After all, one-third of
the league's players are Latin American. And last week, Sen. Bob
Menendez (D-NJ), the Senate's lone Latino, sent a letter to MLB
Players Association director Michael Weiner urging him to push
players to skip the game. His goal: keep public pressure focused
on repealing the law--and on