12:46 AM ET ESPN News Services Baseball in South Korea has an official new starting date. The Korea Baseball Organization announced Tuesday that regular-season play there will begin May 5, according to the Yonhap News Agency of South Korea, which also reported that games initially will be played without fans in attendance. Per the report,
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12:46 AM ET Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean baseball league announced it will start its delayed season on May 5, and wasted no time getting preseason games going. It was a distinctly quiet start on Tuesday to two weeks of exhibition games and training for the 10 teams of the topflight
11:28 PM ET A pair of fans from New York are suing Major League Baseball, each individual club and ticket resellers over tickets purchased for MLB games which haven’t been played due the coronavirus pandemic. The complaint, filed Monday in California, is seeking class-action certification and to add more plaintiffs who are “similarly situated.” “During
5:12 PM ET As Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly watched ESPN’s Michael Jordan docuseries “The Last Dance” on Sunday, his mind kept coming back to one person: Derek Jeter. A baseball lifer, Mattingly has had a front-row seat to the rise of Jeter from a fresh-faced rookie to a world champion to a baseball franchise
4:39 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has made a move that allows teams to lay off or cut the pay of major and minor league managers, coaches, trainers and full-time scouts starting May 1. Manfred has suspended uniform employee contracts that cover about 9,000 people, including general managers on
Apr 20, 2020 John BarrESPN.com Close Joined ESPN in June 2003 Winner: 2013 Peabody Award; 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award/Video Investigative Reporting Covers breaking news, investigative pieces and human interest features PHILADELPHIA — Marvin Spratley has been a grill cook for nearly two years, working concession stands during the home games for Philadelphia’s Flyers, 76ers
3:37 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels are committing $1.2 million to cover more than 1,800 people who work at their stadium. The money, issued through a one-time grant, will provide financial assistance to a wide range of employees, including third-party vendors, and will be distributed in a sliding scale based on factors like job
2:32 PM ET Kelly CohenESPN Sports around the world have been on hiatus only since mid-March, but when the numbers are crunched, the coronavirus pandemic‘s impact on the industry will be felt for years to come. Only 53% of the major sports events originally scheduled for 2020 are likely to take place this calendar year.
1:49 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI — Marlins CEO Derek Jeter told team employees during a conference call Monday that he is indefinitely forgoing his salary during the coronavirus pandemic, a source told ESPN confirming multiple reports. Jeter, who has a reported salary of $5 million annually, told members of baseball ops on the
11:32 AM ET Iconic bat maker Louisville Slugger has closed its factory and furloughed the majority of its workforce because of coronavirus shutdowns. “We’re not doing any advertising. We’ve cut all our expenses we can. We’re just hoping we get back to normal before we run out of cash,” CEO John Hillerich IV told the