Let’s play ball: MLB players accept labor deal and salvage 2022 baseball season

• Players' union executive board approve agreement
• Season had been under threat after weeks of negotiations

Players have voted to accept Major League Baseball's latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season.

The union's executive board approved the agreement in a 26-12 vote, pending ratification by all players, a person familiar with the balloting told the Associated Press.