Baseball was reborn on the 3rd of July, at Guaranteed Rate Field, Wrigley Field and everywhere else on the major league map.
Bats cracked. Gloves popped. Practice was — even just for a sight here, a sound there — perfect.
Too soon, though? With COVID-19 persisting, and, in some big-league locales, surging, did teams really need to get back on the field in July? Or at all in 2020?
In this week’s “Polling Place” — your home for Sun-Times sports polls on Twitter — we asked if three weeks of workouts and a July 23 or 24 Opening Day is, given the risks involved, overly ambitious.