article_snippet.sent: (CNN)It seems almost silly to be writing about baseball in the context of recent events.  
article_snippet.sent: Last weekend, as Baltimore reacted to the death of Freddie Gray, the young man who died last week from a spinal cord injury Freddie Gray suffered while in police custody, Major League Baseball had a problem on Major League Baseball hands.
article_snippet.sent: The riots of Baltimore, the peaceful marches of Baltimore, the fury and unrest of Baltimore did not seem to have had much to do with baseball.  
article_snippet.sent: Such action by MLB is not without precedent.  
article_snippet.sent: It's interesting that I have not yet heard anyone say that baseball or sport can heal this wound,"  Daniel Nathan, professor of American Studies at Skidmore College and editor of "Rooting for the Home Team: Sport, Community and Identity" told me.  
article_snippet.sent: To his credit, Orioles Executive Vice President John Angelos, son of majority owner Peter Angelos, took to Twitter to prioritize the issues at hand, focusing not on the lost games, but on the "unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.
article_snippet.sent: And with MLB's announcement that Baltimore's weekend games will be moved to Tampa, it becomes clear that the only thing that America has figured out about race relations, poverty, the achievement gap, police brutality, and so on is how to keep America baseball players safe and make sure that the games go on.
highlights_snippet.sent: She says baseball can bring cities together.