NEW YORK — Just as a trial was to begin, Major League Baseball and its fans reached agreement Tuesday to expand the menu of online packages for televised games.
The deal came weeks after baseball’s lawyers told a judge that for the first time the league was going to let fans buy single-team packages for fans who watch games online. In the past, viewers who didn’t live in their favored teams’ home markets had to buy access to every single televised MLB game.
Ned Diver, an attorney for fans who filed the class-action lawsuit in 2012, confirmed the preliminary settlement, though he did not immediately describe the terms.