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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.
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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Dodger Blue, Gaslamp Ball, FanGraphs Baseball, MLB Daily Dish, MLB Baseball News …, baseballmusings.com and Fox News
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).
Nick Piecoro / USA Today:
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey open to state hosting post-pandemic MLB season — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said the state would be open to the idea of hosting all 30 teams should Major League Baseball push forward with an idea to play its season in empty spring training parks later this year.
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Ryan Gaydos / Fox Business:
MLB's return contingent on one major thing, Rob Manfred says
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NPR, Miami Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fox News, MLB Trade Rumors and MLB Baseball News …
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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Sports Illustrated, Bless You Boys, Talking Chop, Lone Star Ball, MLive.com and Star Tribune
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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Mark Liptak / Sports Illustrated:
Today in White Sox History: April 8 — This day was a doozy, because it turned out to be one of the biggest and most painful “what if's” in franchise history. — As per the rules at the time, the White Sox had to choose between two pitchers signed to “bonus baby” contracts …
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.
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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Associated Press, Fox News, Phillies Nation, The Good Phight and New York Post
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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NBCSports.com, MLB Trade Rumors and Sports Illustrated
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.
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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