Trying to find out the status of a baseball player coming back from an ankle injury definitely will be easier than learning whether someone tested positive for the coronavirus.

Baseball's minor leagues canceled their seasons Tuesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the head of their governing body said more than half of the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections.

Cole Wilcox spent Tuesday in San Diego. By mid-afternoon, the former Heritage High School and University of Georgia pitcher was a millionaire.

Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award.

Several months before the coronavirus outbreak altered everyone's way of life, Major League Baseball announced it would be altering the minor league landscape by contracting roughly one-fourth of the teams.

Major League Baseball fans hoping to see a game in person this season may have to settle for the modern equivalent of pressing their faces up to the windows or squinting through fences like the children's Knothole Gangs of yore.

Forget about those halcyon first few days of spring training, when arranging for the right tee time on the right golf course is often more challenging than the work on the field.

Baseball's bubble-free environment is an anomaly as the sports world tries to come back amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Grant Dayton will notice one glaring absence this season after he reports to the Atlanta Braves: his twice-a-month salary.

Rick Honeycutt broke into Major League Baseball as a pitcher with the Seattle Mariners in 1977, when the Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays were expansion teams.

Somebody in government should hire him to become Czar of the COVID-19 Mask.

Gerrit Cole could make his New York Yankees debut in a tasty opening day treat for fans, facing Juan Soto and World Series champion Washington at Nationals Park.

Like many local baseball players in the past two decades, Cooper Kinney grew up loving the Atlanta Braves and idolizing switch-hitting slugger Chipper Jones.

Phillie Phanatic, phenomenal. Mr. Met, mistakes were made. Mariner Moose, marvelous. Wally the Green Monster, welcome back.

Rob Manfred knows many fans were angered by the fact that Major League Baseball and its players' union became embroiled in a financial fight during a pandemic.

And with a 60-game schedule that is still weeks away from beginning, it already feels like a whirlwind.

So, where were we?

Given the need for three days of COVID-19 testing and 21 days of workouts, opening day likely would be during the final week of July.

An email from commissioner Rob Manfred to union head Tony Clark led to a balk in the drawn-out talks to start the pandemic-delayed 2020 MLB season.

"Field of Dreams" features phantoms and phenoms on an unlikely diamond in an Iowa cornfield. Emotions gush like water across the fresh-cut grass, resonating three decades later because of the nerves the movie digs down to reach.

Extra innings that start with runners on second base, games ending in ties and players returning to the lineup as substitutions are among the possibilities.

Every team in Major League Baseball will shut its spring training camp due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, a move that came in the wake of the Philadelphia Phillies announcing Friday five players had tested positive for COVID-19.

The Major League Baseball Players Association proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, a plan immediately rejected by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.