Between the lines, it was major-league baseball as usual. Yet the crowdless White Sox-Orioles game on April 29, 2015, in Baltimore is properly remembered as anything but normal.
“It was very, very strange, almost a surreal experience, one I never thought would be repeated,” Sox TV analyst Steve Stone, who called the game with Hawk Harrelson for WPWR-50, recalled last month.
As sports leagues consider various plans on when and how to return from the coronavirus shutdown, playing games without fans in the stands, at least to begin with, seems all but certain.