Have I got a story for you.
It is the perfect story for these times, even though it is more than 100 years old. It is the true story of Edward F. Martin, a baseball writer for the Boston Globe covering Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox while a world war raged and the worst pandemic ever ravaged this country, especially Boston.
An abridged version of the story runs in the print edition of SI out next week. Even in its trimmed form it stands as one of the longest pieces the magazine ever has published.