There will be no spitting in baseball this season. And no high-fives, fist-bumps, hugs, smokeless tobacco and the chewing of sunflower seeds.
Something there will be an abundance of if Major League Baseball can reach an agreement with players on salaries and launch an abbreviated 82-game season in empty stadiums in early July: COVID-19 tests.
That much is clear from the proposed health and safety protocols for avoiding the spread of the coronavirus in a 67-page document MLB sent to the players union Friday night, a copy of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
"I'm hopeful we will have Major League Baseball this summer," commissioner Rob Manfred told CNN Thursday night.