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In A Crazy, Strange Sports World During COVID-19, Baseball Starts Season July 23

Funnyman Bill Murray taking a few cuts during a home run derby in Baltimore in 1993.

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

You know the universe is out of kilter — or a virus pandemic has an evil grip on everyday life — when the baseball season starts July 23.

But that’s what we’ve come down to — a 60-game sprint to the finish for Major League Baseball, which is known more for its grueling 162-game marathon season from spring training in late winter to World Series games in early November.

My photographer friend Tom Donoghue sent over a batch of precious baseball photos this morning to mark the first pitch of the 2020 baseball campaign in the age of novel coronavirus.

Here’s my starting nine — plus DH for 10 — in today’s Opening Day of baseball photos.

Casey leads off


Gil Hodges in the two hole


Say Hey batting third

 


Tom Terrific batting cleanup


Reggie wearing nine before 44 batting fifth


Law firm of Garvey Yogi & Boog penciled into the sixth hole


Missing Roberto Clemente batting seventh


Koufax and McLain batting eighth


Trout in the nine hole


And rounding out the lineup card is Al Kaline’s glove


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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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