Assume for a moment — and it is a grand assumption — that Major League Baseball safely completes its 60-game schedule and postseason. When teams reopen ballparks to fans, they will try to sell tickets to 81 home games in a stricken economy. But there is no harm in hunkering down to plan, and that is what Dave Dombrowski, the longtime baseball executive with two World Series titles to his name, is doing now. Dombrowski, 63, was named last week as an adviser to Music City Baseball, a group that wants to bring an expansion team to Nashville. “So you look at all different types of things that have taken place over 100-plus years, and the game still bounces back, because it’s such a great game.

Source: New York Times July 16, 2020 18:33 UTC