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Baseball
  • San Francisco resident Stacy Samuels, also known as Super A or Banjo Man, plays the banjo while cheering in the stands. Samuels, who has been bringing his banjo to Athletics games for more than 30 years, said “It’s great.
    Anne Wernikoff / CalMatters
    Benching COVID: Baseball Fans Return To California Stadiums
    Anne Wernikoff / CalMatters
    Over the weekend, Major League Baseball welcomed spectators back to stadiums for regular season games for the first time since October 2019. The significance of Californians returning to a large public gathering — albeit masked and socially distanced, and stadiums at about a quarter of capacity — wasn’t lost on anyone.
  • Schyler at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13465049
    Exchange Exemplar: Baseball's Endless Summer
    Geoffrey Riley
    Major league sport seasons seem to go on and on. The NBA puts in an 82-game regular season before two months of playoffs. But that's only half the length…