Chicago White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said the uncertainty stemming from the coronavirus pandemic is unlike anything he has experienced in his 39 years in baseball.
“The only thing that would be reasonably close would be the baseball strikes in ‘81 and ’94,” he said in an April interview with George Washington University School of Business students for a project published Monday titled “How COVID-19 Shook the Cactus League.”
“They’re only similar in that we stopped playing. We always knew that sooner or later they’d be settled and we’d come back and play. This is totally different because we don’t know how this whole pandemic thing is going to end.