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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. (AP) — Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball’s perennial champions in the 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 91.

Major League Baseball has decided to cancel tonight’s Phillies-Yankees and Marlins-Orioles games, as the league tries to minimize the damage of a possible coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump on Sunday postponed his scheduled starting pitch at a New York Yankees game.

It was expected that several players from the Yankees and Nationals would take a knee during or prior to the national anthem on Opening Day. Though, it wasn’t widely expected that every player and coach from both teams would do it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Highlighting the pitfalls of beginning the baseball season amid a pandemic, Washington Nationals slugger Juan Soto tested positive for COVID-19 and was put on the injured list Thursday, hours before the 2019 World Series champions were scheduled to face the New York Yankees on opening day.

Major League Baseball has announced plans to stencil “Black Lives Matter” on the pitcher’s mound during opening week, beginning with the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees game on Thursday.

11 Major League Baseball umpires have decided to opt out of the league’s abbreviated season, set to get underway in less that two weeks.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has told sports league sin his state to start getting ready to reopen.

Oakland A’s Pitcher Dallas Braden has confessed that he had a hangover when he threw a perfect game in 2010.

Major League Baseball has decided to give teams the go-ahead to refund tickets bought for games that won’t be played.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he can envision baseball games being played without fans this summer at Yankee Stadium and the Mets’ Citi Field.

Yankees and Mets fans don’t often agree on baseball, but the coronavirus has brought them together to sue Major League Baseball to get their ticket money back.

New York Yankees Co-Owner Hank Steinbrenner has died after a lengthy battle with an illness, according to multiple reports. He was 63 years old.

A player in the New York Yankees minor league system has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first professional baseball player confirmed to have contracted the disease that is spreading worldwide.

A Yankees minor league team moved quickly to cancel its “OJ Simpson Trial Night” after a backlash against the promotion.

Former Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, a guy who knows a thing or two about running afoul of the rules, recently let the Houston Astros know that they have “earned” every bit of the criticism they’ve received as a result of their sign-stealing scandal.

With Coronavirus a growing concern across the country, the New York Yankees are urging players to avoid shaking hands with fans and changing autograph procedures.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán will miss the first 63 games of the 2020 season as part of an 81-game ban for violating Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy.

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory when he threw a perfect game in 1956 with the New York Yankees for the only no-hitter in World Series history, died Wednesday night. He was 90.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Saturday attempted to use the record-breaking, multimillion-dollar contract between the New York Yankees and pitcher Gerrit Cole to push for increased teacher salaries.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The New York Yankees landed the biggest prize of the free agent market, adding Gerrit Cole to their rotation with a record $324 million, nine-year contract on Tuesday night, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.

Allen Hershkowitz hopes to make climate change a regular feature on the sports pages of American media whether fans like it or not.

HOUSTON (AP) — Jose Altuve, the 5-foot-6 driving force of Houston, delivered a swing that will play in Astros’ highlights forever.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sounds as though Zack Greinke got an earful at Yankee Stadium while warming up in the bullpen.

President Donald Trump honored Major League Baseball’s Mariano Rivera with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday.

Rivera entered the White House East Room for the ceremony to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” the same song that he used as a walkup song during his career with the Yankees.

In the Victorian era, hitting someone across the face with your glove was a way of showing that someone had truly offended you. In 2019, it still means that, and it means you’re out of the ball game.

DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut have released body-camera footage showing officers in Darien stopping New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman at gunpoint.

MLB will build it, and they will come.

MLB has recently seen a disturbing trend of people getting struck in the head by baseballs. Except this time it wasn’t a fan who got hit, it was a player.

Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera said he respects President Donald Trump in a visit with ‘Fox &; Friends,’ despite recent criticism.

Long-time New York sports talk host Mike Francesa took umbrage with a Daily Beast article criticizing former Yankee pitcher Mariano Rivera for his “secret far-right politics.”

Former Mets legend Dwight “Doc” Gooden was arrested again for DUI on Monday night, after driving the wrong way down a one-way street in Newark, New Jersey. This latest arrest comes only a little over a month after Gooden was arrested for driving under the influence of cocaine, also in New Jersey.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — For Mariano Rivera, it was the culmination of a storied career, dreams of being the next Pelé long since forgotten. For Brandy Halladay, the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony was a tearful moment to reflect on the accomplishments of her late husband, and she handled a difficult task admirably.

The Daily Beast published an article Sunday accusing Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera of “secret far-right politics,” solely on the basis of the fact that he is a Christian who supports the State of Israel.

It was the kind of hit-by-pitch sequence that would have sent most players home, and would have made Rob Riggle’s Hangover character very proud.