A group of professional sports leagues brought a special guest to Trenton on Thursday in the midst of of an increasingly tense debate over how legal sports betting will unfold in New Jersey:
Former Mets and Yankees star pitcher Al Leiter.
Leiter, a New Jersey native, joined representatives from Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the Professional Golfers Association to lobby lawmakers at the Statehouse for the leagues to have a say -- and a cut of the revenue -- once sports betting begins here, NJ Advance Media learned.