ST. LOUIS _ For the first time in our St. Louis baseball lifetime, we can have our gooey butter cake but can't eat it. We get to watch the games, but we can't go experience the games. In 2020, it's baseball at a distance.
To paraphrase James Earl Jones' "Field of Dreams" character: "This field, this game, is a part of our past _ it reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. That said, people won't come."
Not to Busch Stadium. Not to Wrigley Field. Not even to the Field of Dreams itself, when the Cardinals play the White Sox on the famed Iowa farmland on Aug 13. In every other season, fans have the choice of going to the game or taking in the broadcast. But in the year of the pandemic there is no choice. As my father pointed out, the box scores in the paper this summer haven't included attendance figures.
