When Major League Baseball wrote an early draft of its return plan, one of the health and safety protocols stated “showering in club facilities should be discouraged.”
Of all the sacrifices players were asked to make amid the COVID-19 pandemic, eschewing a shower had to be the most difficult to contemplate.
Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and shower heads eventually were back in action. When the final rules were agreed upon between MLB and the players union, showering at the ballpark was allowed as long as it was conducted in a safe and orderly manner.
So on another hot and steamy summer day in Chicago, I asked Cubs manager David Ross about the shower situation at Wrigley Field.