Dear Hal Steinbrenner,
I’ve been a baseball fan all my life. The New York Yankees are practically a religion in my house. And yet, none of us were prepared for what 2020 would do to the sport we love so much.
You see, sir, the COVID-19 pandemic is entirely unprecedented in the sports world. It affects everybody, players and owners alike. Spring training stopped just two weeks ahead of Opening Day, an exciting 2020 campaign so close the fans could taste it.
Today, however, there seems little reason for hope.