Make Baseball invest in its future!!!

Congress granted major league baseball an exemption from anti-trust laws to promote our national past-time. MLB owners and players have squandered their responsibility to the American people through player agents and Bud Selig.
Name one player in the last ten years that has contributed to baseball's enduring legacy who isn't tainted by drugs? Dizzy Dean, Babe Ruth, and Mickey Mantle abused alcohol. But no one ever accused them of using 3.2 to enhance their performance.
The Players' Union and the player agents have resisted drug testing. They were aided by the owners who viewed more homeruns putting more people in the seats and increasing profits.
But short-term profits come at the expense of public support and the integrity of the game. Baseball's integrity is critical to enable comparing statistics of players over time. And major league baseball is nothing if not statistics. What middle-aged male doesn't joke about an inability to remember their own social security number but can recite the scores of all seven games of the 1961 world series.
Players from Mantle's era subsist on pensions of a few thousand dollars a year but are the reason why seniors today take their grandchildren to a ball game. Which players of today's era is going to motivate the seniors of 2040 to take their grandkids to a ball game? Certainly not Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire or Sammy Sosa--all tainted with steroids.
Congress needs to re-establish the guidelines for major league baseball.
The players and owners are not taking steps to sustain the public's interest in the game of baseball. Congress can do so by calling for taking 25 percent of the total revenues and allocating the money to prep sports. Half the amount can be set aside for youth baseball and softball (let's not forget the girls) and the other half spread across sports programs targeted to lower income kids, especially those in inner cities. this half can go for soccer, swimming and anything but football and basketball.
You can already guess the next phase of the proposal: take a similar amount of profits from the NFL and NBA for youth sports and inner city programs.
Player salaries will drop by 25 percent. Good. A $20 million a year player will make $16 million. It is hard to imagine the adverse impact on that player's motivation, team chemistry, or the quality of play viewed by the fan in the stands.
More kids playing sports might have a small impact on the sales of $150 tennis shoes--when kids rediscover that shoes are for playing, not primping, there will be more cache in wearing scruffing sneakers rather than pimped out air jordans.
Owners will make less money on a year to year basis. maybe. but when was the last time that a major league franchise was sold for less than its purchase price, even allowing for inflation?