La Russa OK’d to fly with team

Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa was cleared by his doctors to participate in Sunday’s pregame ceremony to retire Dave Stewart’s No. 34 jersey with the Oakland Athletics.

According to the White Sox, La Russa will travel with the team to Chicago after the series finale against the A’s, but the 77-year-old Hall of Famer hasn’t been cleared to return to the dugout as an active manager.

Etc.

The players’ association will submit union authorization cards to an arbitrator on Wednesday under an agreement with Major League Baseball that will lead to collective bargaining for about 5,500 farmhands. MLB and the union reached a card-check agreement Saturday, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.