I will graduate from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in sports journalism this May. During my time as a journalism student, I was afforded the opportunity to briefly cover Major League spring training for the first time this past Spring before the sports world, and society as a whole, ground to a relative halt.
The sports reporters in my class during my final semester were all assigned one of the 15 clubs that call Arizona home during MLB’s preseason. Along with a few others, I was sent to Hohokam Stadium to cover the Oakland Athletics for the duration of spring training.