The Atlanta Braves are one step closer to hosting the Fall Classic, now either the Los Angeles Dodgers or San Francisco Giants stand in the way.
All-Star Game moved out of their park due to a slate of restrictive voting laws in Georgia, it turns out that baseball's biggest event, the World Series, might end up in their backyard instead.
So, while Major League Baseball shipped this years' All-Star Game and its surrounding events like the Home Run Derby out of Georgia, there is a chance that the World Series, the pinnacle of professional baseball, could end up in Atlanta after all. , has been heavily criticized for making it harder for minorities in the state to vote by implementing unnecessarily restrictive voter identification policies., one of the bill's most ardent opponents, referred to it as"Jim Crow on steroids" and told ESPN that he would"strongly support" the MLB's decision to move the game out of Atlanta.