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MLB tells players at most 60 games; 50 or fewer possible

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NEW YORK – The players' association was told by Major League Baseball on Friday that teams will not agree to more than 60 games in the pandemic-delayed season, leaving open the possibility of an even shorter schedule of perhaps 50 games or fewer.While the NBA and NHL have found ways to restart their sports, baseball has been unable to cope with the economic dislocation because of the new coronavirus and the prospect of playing in empty ballparks, reverting to the fractious labor strife that led to eight work stoppages from 1972-95.

With time slipping away, the sport will have at best its shortest schedule since the dawn of professional baseball in the 1870s.The sides are increasingly dismayed with each other and appear headed to a spring.

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