12 sports shout-outs for 2013

4. To Major League Baseball…

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Oakland Athletics' Dan Johnson (l.) collides with Seattle Mariners' Kenji Johjima at home plate but was out on the play as Johjima held onto the ball in the ninth inning of a 2006 baseball game at Safeco Field in Seattle.

… for moving toward eliminating dangerous home plate collisions. The prohibition is expected to start in 2014, and will bar baserunners from plowing into catchers and catchers from blocking the plate.

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