Most workers face background check

If he’d been up for a job as computer programmer, Wally Backman might never have been in this mess.But the big boys in Major League Baseball can play by different rules.Backman, 45, was fired Friday from a job he never technically held because he still hadn’t signed the $500,000-a-year contract the Arizona Diamondbacks offered him earlier in the week to manage the baseball team. Read More