So, baseball is a spring, summer and early fall game played in warmer weather at a slower pace and more pastoral setting than the hurly-burly of football and the crowded indoor humidity of basketball. Right? Well, tell that to old mother nature. The Great Lakes region of North America is a place like few others on this planet. What amount to huge fresh water inland seas passed over by competing Arctic and sub-Arctic cold fronts shoving up against equally insistent warm air from the Gulf of Mexico fight unhindered by mountains or valleys throughout the vernal and autumnal periods.