Major League Baseball teams, informed Monday by Commissioner Rob Manfred to prepare for an on-time start of the 2021 season, received health and safety guidelines that stated teams could also permit fans to attend games, perhaps as early as spring training in February.
No fans attended games last season until the National League Championship Series and World Series at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, but memos distributed to teams Monday allow for the possibility that spring-training tickets could be sold in small groups of pods, providing they are seated at least six feet from one another, according to a memo obtained by USA TODAY Sports.