Well, no, actually, today in the Virginia suburbs of DC it got up into the upper 70s. On our deck, when the sun hit the thermometer, it read 96 degrees at one moment.
But there’s no baseball in the newspapers. No baseball news on TV or the radio.
The St. Louis Cardinals’ great infielder Rogers Hornsby, “The Rajah,” summed up true baseball fans’ feelings when he said:
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Yeah, that’s how I feel right now. Spring training starts in Florida in mid-February. Then the spring will eventually come, and baseball will be back!
During Christmas week I drove into Washington and took pictures of the construction site for the new baseball stadium:
My favorite part of this picture is the tiny bit of upper deck, on the left, where the cheap seats are being built. That’s my neighborhood, baby !
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