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Major League Baseball’s 30 owners approved a plan to begin the baseball season in early July, with the proposal now heading to the player’s union for approval amid the coronavirus pandemic. Games would be played without fans to start, with each team playing around 82 regular-season games, inter-division and interleague matchups based on geographical proximity, …

There might still be baseball in 2020, but it won’t be in Cooperstown. Derek Jeter will have to wait another year for his Hall of Fame weekend, as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Wednesday this year’s induction ceremonies were canceled due to health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hall’s board …

This was supposed to be the summer of record-breaking crowds in Cooperstown for the July 26 induction of Derek Jeter into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Captain was coming home to the Hall of Fame. Baseball heaven, it appears, is going to have to wait until 2021. The Hall of Fame is expected …

Mickey Mantle was quite the charmer, it seems. After Page Six reported that the Yankee legend once slipped a female journalist a greeting card mid-interview, that read “Wanna f– k?,” we’re told that he also once thew up while having sex with Angie Dickinson. In his upcoming book “Gatecrasher,” longtime gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe writes that …

Mickey Mantle once slipped a female reporter a cutesy greeting card during an interview — with the message “Wanna f–k?” written inside. In a new memoir, Diane Shah — the first female sports columnist for a major daily newspaper and longtime sports reporter— recalls sitting down with the Yankee legend in 1970 while he was …

Things are starting to get heated in the Taiwan baseball league. Some fans looking for their sports fix have tuned in to the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), which restarted last week with robots and cardboard cutouts in the stands amid the coronavirus outbreak. And anyone watching Sunday’s Rakuten Monkeys-Fubon Guardians game on Eleven Sports …

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He was the greatest athlete that never was. Drew Henson couldn’t miss in two sports — yet he did. “I didn’t have the success for which I hoped or expected,” Henson told The Post in a recent interview, “but I have this wealth of life experiences.” Does he ever. He is a sports Zelig — …

President Trump believes the NFL season should start on time in September. Trump said as much in a conference call with the commissioners of the major sports leagues on Saturday, and also said he hoped to have fans back in stadiums by August and September, according to ESPN, citing sources familiar with the call. The NFL …

Cincinnati Reds pitchers Trevor Bauer and David Carpenter have thought of an old-school idea to remain active with MLB spring training canceled and the regular season delayed. Bauer and Carpenter posted on Twitter an invitation for any major league or minor league player to play a sandlot-style game they would like to hold somewhere in …