It is Fourth of July weekend — a time when Minor League Baseball parks across the nation are supposed to be having a star-spangled celebration of America, complete with baseball, barbecue and beer.
Mom, dad and the kids piling into the mini-van and headed to the ballpark to watch the Daytona Tortugas, the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels or the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
“Fourth of July weekend is what Minor League Baseball is all about,” says Tortugas general manager Jim Jaworski. “Our sport is part of the American fabric.”
For the first time in history, the official announcement was made earlier this week that there will be no Minor League Baseball this summer because of the pandemic.