Baseball means a great deal to me.
If you are reading these words, it likely means a great deal to you, too.
In a year when we are collectively suffering through a worldwide pandemic that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives as well as millions of jobs, baseball could be seen as something that doesn’t have to resume, not before we have a vaccine for the virus and get people back to work.
That’s a perfectly reasonable position to take. And yet, baseball is also a business that produces gainful employment for many thousands of people, as do other professional sports, and I’m not talking about players, but scouts, other front-office employees, gameday workers, broadcasters, writers.