Astros’ Baker gets COVID-19 vaccine after initial reticence

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said he’d been vaccinated against COVID-19 as the team began spring training Thursday. But the 71-year-old Baker, who is Black, understands the reticence of some in his community to get the vaccine because of this country’s history with medical studies on Black people without permission as in the Tuskegee Experiment.