Clearwater, Fla. — For players, this qualifies as work. For fans, too.
It is 2 p.m. on a mid-June afternoon at Spectrum Field and it is in the low 90s with humidity that, even sitting in those shaded seats near the concourse, can make one’s shirt look in minutes as if a person has just wrapped up a cruel duel with the treadmill.
So, there are maybe 200 fans, including a gang of school or camp kids wearing yellow shirts, parked in seats beneath the second deck’s sun cover, taking in an otherwise festive Florida State League game between the Clearwater Threshers and Lakeland Flying Tigers.