TORONTO -- Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark on Friday said "there is a lot of work to be done" by MLB in the wake of another sports gambling scandal hitting the NBA this week.

Speaking before Game 1 of the World Series at Rogers Centre, Clark reiterated that he is concerned about the problems sports gambling presents to players, including safety worries as threats directed at players from gamblers mount.

Clark pointed to the day the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in 2018 -- giving states the go-ahead to legalize betting on sports -- saying the union had players "within 24 hours reach out suggesting they were suddenly being followed by gambling sites and other entities."

"It's just a different world," Cla

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