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

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.

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