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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 — Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn't at Donald Trump's side for his daily coronavirus task force briefing on Tuesday. But Fauci's aggressive and unpredictable media tour continued on Snapchat …
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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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Bradford William Davis / New York Daily News:
Following Jackie Robinson's commitment to fighting poverty is the best way MLB could honor his legacy — Jackie Robinson's extraordinary path is too narrow for most of us to follow. How could it not be? — He was the first to break baseball's color barrier, in part because Major League Baseball players …
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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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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.
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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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J.J. Cooper / Baseball America:
A 2020 Minor League Baseball Season Grows More And More Unlikely — If this were a normal year, the MiLB season would be one week old. But as we all know, there is nothing normal about 2020. And it's becoming all too easy to imagine the complete 2020 season being cancelled.
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