Interleague Play May Be in Jeopardy

If baseball owners fail to conclude the labor agreement their negotiator and the players have just about completed, there won’t be interleague play next year, a union source said.

Owners approved interleague play last January but they can’t go ahead with it unless the players also agree. Players won’t consider a partial agreement that covers only interleague play, the source told the Associated Press on the condition he not be identified.

“I don’t even want to think about that,” union head Donald Fehr said Tuesday night. “At this stage, we have to conclude the deal that’s there. To throw that away and start talking about interim things is enormously counterproductive.”