Sara’s Diary, Day 73 without baseball: Summer in a pandemic

Photo by George Rose/Getty Images People picnic near Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park in 2018Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and with real feel temperatures near 80 this is easily the nicest weather Wrigleyville has seen in 2020. But summer in the COVID-19 pandemic seems fraught, as more people want to be outside at a time where the public health experts still advise social distancing, masks and no large gatherings. I’ve found myself wondering what exactly the summer of coronavirus will look like. I mean, we’ve already established that it is extremely unlikely fans will watch baseball at their favorite ballparks, but what exactly can we expect?

In the absence of…