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PATERNITY LEAVE IN SPORTS
Tony Perez was on the road with the Cincinnati Reds in 1966 when he got the call that his first child was on the way. There was no discussion about leaving the team to attend the birth, no such thing as paternity leave. "They didn't give you any time off when I was playing," the Hall of Fame slugger says. These days, more and more pro athletes are taking time off of work to be with their families in the delivery room, yet Major League Baseball remains the only one of the four major professional leagues in the United States to have a standardized paternity leave policy. The NFL, NBA and NHL all leave it up to the individual players and teams to come to an agreement between themselves when such a situation arises. New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy was criticized on sports talk radio this month for taking three days, which is provided for in baseball's rulebook, to spend time with his wife and newborn son Noah. But in the days that followed, Murphy received wide support from players and coaches who say the times have changed. By Jon Krawczynski. SENT: 950 words, photos.
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