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The union warns player agents not to return autographed items to the company, which no longer has a licensing agreement with baseball.

The effort to reach out to those connected to Alex Rodriguez comes as he and his lawyers have put off several meetings.

By meeting with Alex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball investigators beat federal authorities to the punch: they have been trying to interview Rodriguez for weeks.

Richard Levin, Major League Baseball’s chief spokesman for the past 25 years, will retire at the end of the year, he said on Thursday.

Federal investigators want to talk to Alex Rodriguez about a Canadian-based doctor. A meeting set for Friday was postponed.

Jose Canseco said on Twitter on Tuesday that he had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating Roger Clemens for possible perjury charges.

The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez will be interviewed as a witness on Friday as part of the drug investigation of a Canadian doctor.

Rangers Manager Ron Washington said he tested positive for cocaine in 2009 under a program that managers, coaches and personnel have been subjected to since the release of the Mitchell report.

Sandy Alderson, a longtime baseball executive, is looking into a feeder system in which performance-enhancing drug use and age fraud are commonplace.

Alex Rodriguez said that although federal investigators want to meet with him about his ties to a Canadian doctor under investigation, he was at ease.