Although Major League Baseball and the Players Association have yet to reach an agreement on an economic plan and health and safety protocols for a 2020 regular season, they recently received a boon when California Gov. Gavin Newsom said sports could return during the first week of June.
The possibility came with the caveat that fans still would not be allowed, keeping with Newsom’s previous remarks that he didn’t anticipate sporting events in California drawing attendance without a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine in place — which at best will not arrive until late this year.
As counties throughout California have begun to re-open this week, Casey Wasserman, head of the sports and entertainment division of the county’s economic resiliency task force, submitted a letter to Los Angeles County supervisors, outlining how sports could safely return.