The Arizona Rookie League will begin its new season in two months. Around 145 players born in countries speaking Spanish will meet in Phoenix and other suburbs for professional baseball. As they are gathering, Arizona’s new law will be going into effect sometime in July. This new law is extremely controversial. People who look Hispanic might not be welcomed.

There has already been a demand of boycotting games like the Arizona Diamondbacks or the 2011 All-Star in Phoenix. Over 1000 players, and hundreds of coaches, business staff, trainers, and even executives spend at least eight weeks of training there for the spring.

Twenty-five percent or more of major leagues are made up of Latin Americans with the minor leagues at an even higher rate. This reform is an invitation to racial profiling states the critics. If the government doesn’t intervene soon it will certainly impact baseball.

The players do not need to carry a passport or visa inside the US. So the question is now do they have to? How will they be treated any differently from the same person that has the same color skin?

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