April is a month of many different occasions – midterms, Earth Day and Tax Day are some important ones to remember – but for baseball fans, it is finally the beginning of the new season.
Last semester I wrote a commentary piece about the 2010 Major League Baseball season, in which I said that most likely it would be the same teams going to the playoffs this year. I was not completely wrong, but there were some teams that took me by surprise.
Not only did Minnesota lose a hero Monday, nor did just the world of sports, but the world as a whole. Transcending a game that he loved so much, Kirby was so much more than just a roly-poly, atypical athlete.