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The Grapefruit Juice League

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A thought experiment I came up with: let’s say baseball weren’t a monopoly, and rival leagues were allowed to form. Let’s say MLB clamps further down on steroids, and a league sprouted up that allowed its players to juice up or whatever they saw fit (leaving aside the question of how the league obtained steroids in the first place). Would that rival league succeed? Or would it go the way of the XFL?