Apple in talks to cover Major League Baseball - report
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has held "substantial" talks with Major League Baseball about broadcasting games next season on Apple TV+, the New York Post reports.
That would fulfill some broadcasting observers' long-held ambitions for Apple - but more important, it would help Apple keep pace with all the new-tech entrants into sports coverage, notably Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), which has been making NFL inroads with streaming.

The package MLB is selling is the weekday national games recently given up by ESPN (NYSE:DIS), which elected to forgo regular Monday and Wednesday games.
MLB has also talked to Amazon as well as Barstool Sports, according to the report.
The discussion comes in the middle of a baseball labor lockout, which would need to be resolved before there are games at all in 2022. But Apple and MLB have a long working relationship: The MLB app was one of the first on Apple's App Store in 2008.
Apple TV+ has broken through into a world of streaming ratings usually dominated by Netflix on the back of its hit series Ted Lasso.