It was exactly one year ago today that Major League Baseball shut down. The now-famous positive COVID test of Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz shut down the NBA the night before. Other sports quickly followed suit and MLB debated the next step through the morning until finally deciding to shut down Spring Training that afternoon.
- MLB allowed the Spring Training games in Florida that had already started to be played to completion. Emma Baccellieri remembers the surreal experience of the Rays/Phillies Spring Training game that was the final American sporting event played before the shutdown.