2020 was a year that many people want to forget – in large part thanks to a deadly pandemic – which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson looks at how America’s pastime was not spared the suffering.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, co-author with his son, Stephen, of The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns.