[cgbg]

Do advertisements and announcements on the stadium scoreboards count as “the field of play”?

Most of the items I mentioned fit in that category.

[JennysCool]

I don't doubt you at all. Watching on TV, though, they seldom show the scoreboard unless there's a ball flying over it.

I guess what I'm mainly getting at is the NBA and NFL seem to be saturated with "activism," while baseball has just basically been playing baseball this season.