It will all seem uncomfortably familiar to you. Tremendous pressure being levied upon baseball to shorten its season or even close down until the threat can be abated. Disagreement and dissent between the players on the teams angling for the postseason and arguing with the commissioner of baseball as well as the relevant owners; demands for full shares of their players’ pay for making the postseason in a shortened series. A disease percolating through the population, a lethal strain of the H1N1 influenza virus, and a clueless government refusal to acknowledge its seriousness even while thousands are dying.
This is baseball and Boston in the early fall of 1918.