In New England you get used to going home in the dark after work. The end of a winter’s day has a routine, and it’s cold, black and uneventful. It’s so embedded as part of the daily process from November to March, you become numb to the murk.
So when baseball season approaches, and the evening daylight grows longer, it represents a welcome transition. All of a sudden, there’s energy in the air at the end of the day. Energy that, with the help of a baseball game, can transform a random Wednesday into something memorable and exhilarating.