VIRUS DIARY: Fantasy baseball, when real ball is the fantasy
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April 3, 2020
CINCINNATI (AP) — "People ask me what I do in winter when there is no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." — Rogers Hornsby (1896-1963), baseball Hall of Famer
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Updating my brackets, I looked forward to a dream second-round game: the 1919 Chicago White Sox against the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. The two greatest players ever banned because of betting scandals, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose, on the same field!
The field is made of cardboard, a game played with dice and statistically accurate cards.
Instead of cleaning out the basement as planned two...
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