COLUMBIA, Mo. — Since the coronavirus wiped out his 2020 season, Jackson Lancaster, a junior outfielder for the Missouri baseball team, has returned home to Corinth, Miss., where he keeps his lefthanded swing fresh in a makeshift batting cage in his family’s barn.
These days, you have to improvise.
“It’s kind of therapeutic for me,” he said Friday in a phone interview. “We’re used to playing. We were about to start conference play. Everything got cut off so quick, it kind of shocked us.”
For Lancaster, his Mizzou teammates and fellow college athletes around the country whose seasons were interrupted and eventually canceled because of COVID-19, a consolation prize could be on the way.