New York-based baseball writer Ronald Blum used longtime sources for a series of scoops that kept AP ahead of the field as MLB’s owners and players clashed over the economic terms of a delayed start to the baseball season. Blum’s biggest beat came when a source sent him the 12-page presentation from the commissioner’s office to the players’s union, showing that teams would lose $640,000 per game if the players made their full salaries. Blum was the only journalist to receive the classified document and major outlets ran with his story.
Delay of game: Source work yields exclusives on baseball season
Grounds crew members continue work to keep the Seattle Mariners field in playing shape as the ballpark went into its seventh week idled without baseball because of the coronavirus outbreak, May 11, 2020.
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