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Peter Hamby Interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci | Good Luck America | Snap Originals — Peter Hamby, host of Good Luck America, interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, and member of President Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci promotes fan-free return for sports — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert and one of the faces of the United States' fight against the coronavirus, says the only way professional sports will happen this summer is by holding events without fans in attendance and by keeping players in hotels.
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
Baseball? Coachella? Handshakes? Tinder? Anthony Fauci on the New Rules of Living With Coronavirus
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Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Dr. Fauci gives some hope baseball could return this summer
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB players, team employees participating in coronavirus study — Employees of Major League Baseball teams are participating in a massive study that will test up to 10,000 people for coronavirus antibodies and should offer researchers a better sense of how widespread the disease …
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Molly Knight / The Athletic:
MLB team employees will be the subjects of US's largest COVID-19 antibody study — Major League Baseball team employees are the subjects of the first and largest COVID-19 antibody study in the United States, the lead researchers of the study told The Athletic today.
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Enrique Rojas / ESPN:
Former Blue Jays 2B Damaso Garcia dies at 63 — Former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Damaso Garcia died Wednesday in the Dominican Republic at the age of 63, his son, Damaso Garcia Jr., told ESPN. — Garcia played 11 seasons in the majors and was a two-time All-Star (1984, '85).
Ryan Gaydos / Fox Business:
MLB's return contingent on one major thing, Rob Manfred says — Baseball was in the middle of spring training when it decided to delay the start of Opening Day — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday baseball would not be returning until given the proper clearance …
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Rob Bradford / WEEI:
World Series MVP Steve Pearce officially retires, says 2018 Red Sox did nothing wrong — It's now official. — After telling WEEI.com he was “unofficially retired” in December, Steve Pearce took the next step when appearing with Mike Mutnanksy on WEEI's replay of Game 1 of the 2018 World Series.
Carlos Collazo / Baseball America:
MLB Mock Draft — It's an odd time to be doing a mock, and honestly, there's not a ton of information linking players to specific teams outside of the first few picks. That makes sense, considering we don't yet know how many rounds the draft will be, or even when the draft is going to take place.
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New York Post:
Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63 — Hank Steinbrenner, general partner and co-chairperson of the Yankees, died early Tuesday morning at his Clearwater, Fla., residence due to a long-standing health issue surrounded by family members. — According to a source, the cause of death was not COVID-19.
Mark Townsend / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
New details emerge about the plane crash that killed MLB Hall of Famer Roy Halladay — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released new details about the plane crash that killed Hall of Fame pitcher Roy Halladay. — According to the report released Wednesday …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Union chief Tony Clark still optimistic MLB will play games in some way in 2020 — Tony Clark, sitting in his Phoenix-area home Wednesday morning, looks at his cellphone, sees Jackie Robinson's picture as his screen saver, and reads the immortal words again. — “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
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Pete Grathoff / Kansas City Star:
Former manager Jim Frey, who led Royals to first World Series, dies at age 88 — Jim Frey, who replaced Whitey Herzog as the Kansas City Royals' manager in 1980 and helped the franchise to its first World Series that season, died Sunday. He was 88. — The Somerset Patriots …
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