Baseball Sees Star Coverage Tightening

Insurance policies to cover the multi-year, multi-million dollar salaries of injured professional baseball players might soon be as hard to pick up as a split-fingered fastball.

The hardening insurance market coupled with skyrocketing salaries of premier players has created a double play combination that may threaten the financial future of more than two-thirds of the 30 major league teams, baseball officials warn.

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