Major League Baseball is shut down for a month. And that is the best-case scenario.
This dark world of the coronavirus renders the best thing about baseball the worst possible threat to our health: the gathering together as a community.
Major League Baseball had no choice. Not after the NBA reacted to the first of its players being infected by the virus by suspending its season. Not after Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Washington lawmakers, “We would recommend that there not be large crowds.