'You want to make sure you get it right': Baseball's big plans for London


MLB is already at work to ensure next year’s London series between the Yankees and Red Sox is as authentic as possible

Major League Baseball has staged regular-season games in Japan, Australia, Mexico and Puerto Rico. But nothing the league has attempted overseas comes close to the scope of what it plans to do when the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox cross the pond to play two games next June.

“This will be our biggest (international) project yet,” Phil Bradley, the players’ union’s special assistant for domestic and international events, told the Guardian this week.

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