Major League Baseball’s 2021 All-Star Game will be played in Colorado’s Coors Field, the league says, after it canceled plans for Atlanta to host baseball’s midseason centerpiece. The change came in response to Georgia’s controversial new voting law, which the MLB says is against its values.
“Major League Baseball is grateful to the Rockies, the City of Denver and the State of Colorado for their support of this summer’s All-Star Game,” Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred Jr. said.
Georgia’s Republican-led overhaul, which supporters say expands some voters’ access to early voting, has been widely criticized as hampering access to absentee voting and disproportionately affecting minority communities.
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