The first time I remember hearing The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun” was back early in the 1982 baseball season when the network who carried Expos games used it in a montage featuring highlights of two of their young studs, Terry Francona and Tim Wallach, and I’ve associated it with baseball ever since. The message, at least in the way I remember it almost 40 years later, was that this young talent was here and sunny days were ahead for the team and its fans.
When trying to come up with a way to put into words what Opening Day at Dodger Stadium meant to me as both a heavily emotionally invested fan and someone just trying to keep her head above water during a pandemic, the lyrics to this classic sprung to mind almost right away.