Tommy Martin on baseball: The magical summer when I allowed American’s pastime inhabit my life

I loved baseball because it fitted my temperament. I didn’t know all the tactical nuances, so to me games seemed to simply unfold, like my own life, without intelligent design or heroic intervention

Los Angeles Dodgers fans occupy their socially distanced seating pods during the fifth inning of a spring training baseball game against the Colorado Rockies on March 1, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

The Major League Baseball season starts today and America will feel closer to normal.

The 2020 season, a 60-game campaign convened in July, was an unseemly sprint by the sport’s leisurely standards.