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Pete Rose, already banned from Major League Baseball for gambling, is now accused of breaking another of the sport’s rules. A former groundskeeper for the Montreal Expos recently told the Montreal Gazette that Rose routinely had an Olympic Stadium staffer cork his bats in 1984. Rose played most of the 1984 season for the Expos …

OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64. The Athletics announced the death Saturday night without providing details. “Matt was a great baseball man and a proud Oakland A,” Billy Beane, the team’s executive vice president of baseball operations, said in a statement. “He had …

Yeesh. To steal from legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf, if you had the Mets and Yankees extending sympathy and virtual hugs during this unprecedented nightmare … you lost! With Major League Baseball starting no time soon, New York’s two clubs released their long-awaited ticket policies to address the COVID-19 shutdown, and look, they could have been …

The Yankees announced on Thursday a ticket policy for home games impacted by COVID-19 that includes the rain check policy, credits, bonuses and refunds subject to eligibility. “At this time the only impacted games are home games originally scheduled to be played in April 2020,’’ a release by the team explained. Coronavirus forced the Yankees …

Last week a wire service carried the woeful story of free-agent Seattle defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. Having made $51 million his first four years in the NFL, his next deal could be for a few million less. Depressing? I’m still disconsolate. But misery loves company. Since the coronavirus outbreak, Seattle has suffered the largest leap …

The Mets have a credit/refund plan implemented for games wiped out by the COVID-19 shutdown. On Thursday the club announced that ticket holders for “impacted games” – those scheduled for March and April at Citi Field – can exchange those tickets for future dates, in 2020 or 2021, or submit a request online for a …

The latest billionaire bidder for the Mets might actually be more of a bargain shopper. According to multiple sources familiar with the situation, biotech investor Wayne Rothbaum is still interested in buying the money-losing MLB franchise from the Wilpons, but without the team’s money-making cable network SNY included, Rothbaum would only pony up at an …

The plan is for July. MLB is growing more hopeful it is going to play games this season and — while multiple scenarios are still being hashed out and continue to change regularly with new information regarding combat of the coronavirus pandemic — the most constant roadmap has regular-season games being played by early July …

Many baseball fans should expect to hear their first dose of good news in a long time on Wednesday. No, the games aren’t returning quite yet. But some money will be. An industry source confirmed that, at Major League Baseball’s direction, the 30 teams will start reaching out to their ticket-buying fans on Wednesday afternoon …

Bruno (he asked us to use his nickname) woke up on March 12 expecting it to be a glorious day. After all, it was his 50th birthday, a milestone in anyone’s life. The sun had a brilliant presence and the waves from the Pacific Ocean pounded along the beach. For a Jersey kid now living …