The Texas Rangers baseball team had asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to throw out the first pitch at their home opener.
With MLB’s decision to move the 2021 All Star Game from Atlanta, Gov. Abbott said he’d had enough.
He released a letter
Monday telling the Rangers that he will not support the politicization of
baseball and therefore will
not throw out the first pitch.
“I was looking forward to throwing out the first pitch at
the Texas Rangers’ home opening game until @MLB adopted what has turned out
to be a false narrative about Georgia’s election law reforms,” Abbott tweeted
Monday. “It is shameful that America’s pastime is being influenced by
partisan politics.”
Abbott attached a letter he addressed to Neil Leibman,
president of operations and chief operating officer for the Texas Rangers.
In it, he told Leibman that while Texas was proud to host the
playoff games and World Series in his state last year, it would not seek to
host any other MLB special events, including the All-Star Game.
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