CLEVELAND — Part of the charm of traveling the country for 14 years as an MLB beat writer was learning the weather along with how many creative ways a local baseball team could lose.
Hot in Washington D.C.’s old RFK Stadium is a different kind of hot than 90 degrees at Dodger Stadium. Hot in Atlanta or St. Louis in July is much stickier than a midsummer’s night in San Diego. Same goes for cold. New York in April can be brisk. But Midwest cold is unique. Having covered winter meetings in Indianapolis and Milwaukee, April games at Wrigley and World Series games with the White Sox, there’s nothing quite like the chill-to-the-bone freeze of the Midwest.