Tomorrow is Opening Day! Not so much in North America, where the pandemic has forced Major League Baseball to optimistically eye late June or early July as a start date. But in South Korea, where they have reported their first day of no new domestic cases, the coronavirus has been successfully contained, allowing their professional baseball league to begin play today.
Baseball has been played in Korea since the late 19th century, when American missionaries first brought the game over. U.S. Marines would continue the spread of the sport. Once South Korea began to industrialize, a professional baseball league was formed in 1982, and the Korean Baseball Organization now has ten teams in the most popular sports league in the country.