NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball has a clear message to players and staff this spring: keep their guns, knives and explosives outside the locker room.
Some advertisements were placed in the locker room equipment, where they are informed that "individuals are prohibited from possessing deadly weapons when they are providing a service to the big leagues."
These rules apply to employees of the commissioner's office, other core business of baseball and teams, and players are also included.
A baseball official said that the majors have developed these rules last year after the former catcher of the New York Giants American football, Plaxico Burress, was accidentally shot with a pistol, which led him to serve a two years in prison.
The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to give his comments.
Gun ownership became a subject of controversy in the NBA this season after the Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas Washington was suspended indefinitely and without pay by commissioner David Stern.
Arenas took guns to his dressing room in the Verizon Center. The contract prohibits the NBA to have guns on the premises of the league.
The new president of baseball players' union, Michael Weiner, said the rules were adopted last year but were not released until now.
The document entitled "Policy for Workplace Free of Weapons of Major League Baseball" also indicates that MLB "must prohibit the possession or use of deadly weapons in any premises or place owned, which is operated or controlled by the Major League Baseball.
Among the prohibited items are found on firearms, explosives, daggers, metal knuckles, razor knives and folding knives with blades exceeding five inches (12.5 centimeters) long.
Only security guards and police forces are exempt from this prohibition.
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