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The last five months have been a weird time to cover baseball. (Lord knows there’s been more important stuff to write about.) But that’s meant a chance to tap into so many stories I’d never otherwise have seen, so for Opening Day Eve, here’s a thread (sorry!) of some of that...
From March: on what the early days of the shutdown were like for a foreign minor-leaguer who couldn’t go home https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/03/18/minor-league-players-stranded-coronavirus
From April: the experience of American players in Taiwan, where baseball came back first https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/04/10/taiwan-baseball-begins-coronavirus
From May: how sports cards and box-breaks were the perfect hobby for the pandemic https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/05/04/breaking-the-fall-sports-cards-and-the-pandemic
From June: how mental skills coaches worked with players to prepare for a season they couldn’t imagine https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/06/04/baseball-mental-skills-coaches-quarantine
And from July: how major league families have navigated the tricky choices around this year https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/07/16/players-wives-families-coronavirus-season
I am still not sure about how to responsibly cover a season as fraught as this one. (There’s... a lot!) But here’s to trying to write about some actual baseball in August.
