Major League Baseball reportedly donated $10,000 in total to the campaign of Republican Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who recently made racially-charged remarks, and has now asked for its return.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports revealed in a column the league donated to her campaign in June and September. The two donations tallied $5,000, although Passan pointed out "those came before her infamous comment—in which Hyde-Smith evoked the brutal history of lynchings in Mississippi by saying of a supporter: 'I would fight a circle saw for him; if he invited me to a public hanging, I would be on the front row.