14-12-2016 18:08 via connecticut.cbslocal.com

MLB Owners, Player OK New Deal

NEW YORK (AP) – Baseball owners and players have ratified the sport’s new collective bargaining agreement, extending their labor peace to 26 years through2021.
The sides announced their approvals Wednesday, a day after holding votes in separate telephone meetings.
Teams voted 29-1 to approve, and Tampa Bay Rays managing general partner Stuart Sternberg was the lone dissenting vote, a person familiar with that meetingtells The Associated Press.
The person spoke to the AP on the condit
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