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Sports Business Awards: MLB Wins Sports League Of The Year

MLB won Sports League of the Year on the heels of a highly impactful ’16 that included a new five-year labor agreement with the MLBPA, a $1B deal with Disney to invest into BAMTech, a thrilling seven-game World Series that captivated the nation, record industry revenue and out-of-the-box thinking on events such as the Ft. Bragg Game. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred accepted the award, and said later he was particularly pleased with the Cubs-Indians World Series last fall drawing the largest TV audiences to baseball in a generation. “That was a really important development for us,” Manfred said. “We demonstrated that baseball still had the ability to capture the entire country, and in the parks, it wasn’t just the great energy we had, but the age of the audiences in both Cleveland and Chicago, how young they were. That gives us a lot of momentum going forward.” MLB, which won this award in '12, joins the NBA, NHL and MLS as two-time winners in the category.

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