It began and suddenly halted four months ago in spring training and then restarted as summer camp. Now, filled with trepidation the time has come.
It’s the 2020 Major League Baseball season.
It finally has arrived, 119 days later than originally scheduled, and will be the first major team sport to return to North America beginning at 6:08 p.m. Chicago time Thursday with the defending World Series champion Washington Nationals playing the New York Yankees in the nation’s capital.
There will be no fans in attendance. Only cardboard cut-outs. Pumped-in fake crowd noise required by every team.