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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> was supposed to be writing something important this evening. One of those the-world-is-burning–type articles. But baseball started, and I got distracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the first official pitch of 2020’s abbreviated 60-game regular season won’t be thrown until this weekend, Monday night’s exhibition game between the Giants and A’s took my attention away from the world for a few innings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun set yesterday evening, I sent out a text of distress, asking a good friend for their streaming password so I could watch the A’s broadcast. Once the eagle landed, I was in business: I poured a healthy portion of boxed red wine into my favorite mug, and pulled my beanbag chair so close to my 32-inch TV that I considered wearing a mask as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I promise you my intent was to watch a little bit of the game and write that article later. But baseball has an all-consuming effect, especially when it’s been away for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, it’s the middle of summer, and I hadn’t seen a single home run. So when Oakland A’s outfielder Stephen Piscotty dropped a bomb in the bottom of the second inning, I excitedly clapped loud enough for my neighbor, the self-identified “OG vato” from Santa Cruz, to hear it. He’s a big-time Giants fan, and just about every time we cross paths in the apartment complex, he playfully demands I take my A’s cap off. I never do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13883671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a television showing the A's vs. Giants exhibition game on July 20, 2020. \" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField-1020x561.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField-768x422.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField-1536x845.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/AsField.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of a television showing the A’s vs. Giants exhibition game on July 20, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>h, the power of sports. Bringing people together, even when we disagree, and even when we’re apart. Or, um, \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to be apart: there’s still a pandemic going on, but somehow there were groups of men gathered in a dugout on each side of a white diamond in Deep East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t fully get into the game; the mental notes and health critiques kept popping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the plus side, I noticed the way the TV announcers—normally in the same booth, an arm’s length apart—stayed apart in adjacent booths, divided by a translucent glass, and still maintained fluid communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eerie side, I kept focusing on the cardboard cutouts in the crowd. It started with a Where’s Waldo-esque game of looking for familiar faces on the poster boards. Then, as the TV cameras showed the “crowd” from different angles, it turned into a blatant reminder that this was far from a normal baseball game, both funny and scary. It didn’t help that when I first noticed the relief pitchers sitting in the rows behind the traditional bullpen, not too far from the fake people, my initial reaction was, “Oh—they’ve got \u003cem>moving\u003c/em> cardboard cutouts too?!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the questionable side, I kept thinking about potential health hazards during the game. Some players wore masks, some players didn’t. The umpire stood close to the catcher and batter, calling balls and strikes. I thought: \u003cem>does he have a mask on\u003c/em>? (He did.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I noticed violations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/30/885239263/no-spitting-mlb-unveils-some-new-rules-due-to-coronavirus\">no-spitting rule\u003c/a>. How will they enforce it? \u003ci>Can\u003c/i> they enforce it? Spitting and baseball go together like police and brutality; you can’t have one without the other. But you know how it goes on this land: there’s a difference between what’s illegal and what’s enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, baseball starting is a sign that things are getting back to normal. Both NASCAR races and MMA bouts have been happening since May, but baseball is the first of the “big four” sporting leagues to get going again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WNBA and NBA seasons will start soon. And already the story of the social media curators within “the bubble” has made for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/sports/basketball/nba-bubble-life-twitter.html\">national news;\u003c/a> as did the \u003ca href=\"https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/nba-2k-barbershop-neighborhood-trends-bubble/\">construction of the barbershop\u003c/a> in the bubble and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29431358/how-nba-picked-barbers-bubble\">barbers who’ll work there\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829302/barber-in-the-bubble-the-east-palo-alto-stylist-giving-coronavirus-cuts-to-nba-stars\">one from the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From this point on, these sports stories will only be more distractive. People’s attention span is only so long. If you thought there’d be sustained longevity to the disgust at how the pandemic has been handled by elected officials, or that the protests for Black Lives Matter were going to last until the masses marched to the ballot box in November, your imagination is better than the one I’ve rediscovered while homeschooling my three year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month ago, headlines were centered on companies moving to rectify their institutionalized racism. Last week, celebrity-ism took us on a ride through Nick Cannon’s cancellation, Tory Lanez’s reported assault on Megan Thee Stallion with a deadly weapon and Kanye West’s perpetual public mental breakdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports is just another layer of distraction. A little something to take the mind off of the pains of the world—you know, like the criminal (in)justice system. Sports, entertainment and pop culture make front-page news, while bumped to the second page is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-judge-denies-release-teenage-girl-who-was-jailed-after-n1234377?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">story of a teenage girl named Grace\u003c/a> currently incarcerated in Michigan. Her crime: violating probation by not doing her online homework. In the coming days, it’ll be a little easier to overlook \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/news/article/police-violence-portland-protest-federal-officers/\">Portland, Oregon\u003c/a>, where unidentified federal agents have abducted people in unmarked cars in order to quell the 50-plus days of Black Lives Matter protests. (President Trump has not only openly supported these federal actions, he’s hinted at imposing them on other cities around the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829763/federal-agents-to-police-oakland-protests-plans-unclear-despite-trumps-remarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including Oakland\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, let’s not talk about that, let’s talk baseball. Despite cases of COVID continuing to rise in California, Florida and Arizona, all baseball bastions. Despite people like San Francisco Giants star player \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29440601/giants-buster-posey-opts-2020-season-citing-newborns-health\">Buster Posey\u003c/a> opting out of this season because he doesn’t want to put his family at risk of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/1d2884074e54e1c722d764c1288f7dc9\">Toronto Blue Jays\u003c/a> can’t play home games, because Canadian officials don’t want players traveling between Canada and the United States, where the number of COVID-19 cases is about to top 4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13883670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/MLBTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/MLBTweet.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/MLBTweet-160x177.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/20/893340343/dr-anthony-fauci-to-throw-first-pitch-for-washington-nationals-season-opener\">Dr. Fauci\u003c/a> threw out the opening pitch at the Nationals’ first game back, that’s gotta be a good sign. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, because of these games happening, there will be a financial boost for transportation companies, hotels, restaurants, media outlets and more. So the economy can lurch toward getting back on track. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, again, if baseball is back, that means things will soon be “normal” again. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Na. It won’t. Or at least it’s not there yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When watching baseball, I should be counting balls and strikes, not how many times my favorite player is shown on camera spitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I appreciate the new rules. I appreciate the added health precautions. I appreciate the other historic aspects of last night’s game, too: the first-ever woman to coach a Major League Baseball game, Alyssa Nakken, as well as the silent protest from Giants manager Gabe Kapler and some of his players \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BR_MLB/status/1285399467483492352?s=20\">who took a knee during the national anthem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I know sports will prove to be a distraction. For some, it’ll be a healthy alternative to arguing with their significant other; now they can argue with the umpire instead. But for the majority of us, it’ll be a distraction from the important focus the country seemed to have just over a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know, I know: it’s not one or the other. Just because we’re talking baseball doesn’t mean we can’t also talk politics. 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But baseball started, and I got distracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the first official pitch of 2020’s abbreviated 60-game regular season won’t be thrown until this weekend, Monday night’s exhibition game between the Giants and A’s took my attention away from the world for a few innings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun set yesterday evening, I sent out a text of distress, asking a good friend for their streaming password so I could watch the A’s broadcast. 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Bringing people together, even when we disagree, and even when we’re apart. Or, um, \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to be apart: there’s still a pandemic going on, but somehow there were groups of men gathered in a dugout on each side of a white diamond in Deep East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t fully get into the game; the mental notes and health critiques kept popping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the plus side, I noticed the way the TV announcers—normally in the same booth, an arm’s length apart—stayed apart in adjacent booths, divided by a translucent glass, and still maintained fluid communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eerie side, I kept focusing on the cardboard cutouts in the crowd. It started with a Where’s Waldo-esque game of looking for familiar faces on the poster boards. Then, as the TV cameras showed the “crowd” from different angles, it turned into a blatant reminder that this was far from a normal baseball game, both funny and scary. 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And already the story of the social media curators within “the bubble” has made for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/sports/basketball/nba-bubble-life-twitter.html\">national news;\u003c/a> as did the \u003ca href=\"https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/nba-2k-barbershop-neighborhood-trends-bubble/\">construction of the barbershop\u003c/a> in the bubble and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29431358/how-nba-picked-barbers-bubble\">barbers who’ll work there\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829302/barber-in-the-bubble-the-east-palo-alto-stylist-giving-coronavirus-cuts-to-nba-stars\">one from the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From this point on, these sports stories will only be more distractive. People’s attention span is only so long. If you thought there’d be sustained longevity to the disgust at how the pandemic has been handled by elected officials, or that the protests for Black Lives Matter were going to last until the masses marched to the ballot box in November, your imagination is better than the one I’ve rediscovered while homeschooling my three year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month ago, headlines were centered on companies moving to rectify their institutionalized racism. Last week, celebrity-ism took us on a ride through Nick Cannon’s cancellation, Tory Lanez’s reported assault on Megan Thee Stallion with a deadly weapon and Kanye West’s perpetual public mental breakdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports is just another layer of distraction. A little something to take the mind off of the pains of the world—you know, like the criminal (in)justice system. Sports, entertainment and pop culture make front-page news, while bumped to the second page is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-judge-denies-release-teenage-girl-who-was-jailed-after-n1234377?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">story of a teenage girl named Grace\u003c/a> currently incarcerated in Michigan. Her crime: violating probation by not doing her online homework. In the coming days, it’ll be a little easier to overlook \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/news/article/police-violence-portland-protest-federal-officers/\">Portland, Oregon\u003c/a>, where unidentified federal agents have abducted people in unmarked cars in order to quell the 50-plus days of Black Lives Matter protests. (President Trump has not only openly supported these federal actions, he’s hinted at imposing them on other cities around the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829763/federal-agents-to-police-oakland-protests-plans-unclear-despite-trumps-remarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including Oakland\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, let’s not talk about that, let’s talk baseball. Despite cases of COVID continuing to rise in California, Florida and Arizona, all baseball bastions. Despite people like San Francisco Giants star player \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29440601/giants-buster-posey-opts-2020-season-citing-newborns-health\">Buster Posey\u003c/a> opting out of this season because he doesn’t want to put his family at risk of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/1d2884074e54e1c722d764c1288f7dc9\">Toronto Blue Jays\u003c/a> can’t play home games, because Canadian officials don’t want players traveling between Canada and the United States, where the number of COVID-19 cases is about to top 4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13883670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/MLBTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/MLBTweet.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/MLBTweet-160x177.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/20/893340343/dr-anthony-fauci-to-throw-first-pitch-for-washington-nationals-season-opener\">Dr. Fauci\u003c/a> threw out the opening pitch at the Nationals’ first game back, that’s gotta be a good sign. 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"content": "\u003cp>Baseball season was supposed to start on March 26. And the three months that have since passed haven’t just felt long because of a lack of games. They’ve been made infinitely more frustrating because of seemingly endless squabbles between MLB owners and players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, after weeks of disagreement around both compensation and length of season, progress finally came with an agreement to re-do Spring training starting July 1, and begin a 60-game season on July 24. (The postseason will, as usual, feature 10 teams and be wrapped up by the end of October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crucial, and as yet undecided factor is what health and safety protocols will look like once the 2020 season begins. Given the fact that 40 MLB players and staff—from teams including the Philadelphia Phillies and the Toronto Blue Jays—just \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/40-mlb-players-and-staff-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-last-week-per-report/#link=%7B%22role%22:%22standard%22,%22href%22:%22https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/40-mlb-players-and-staff-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-last-week-per-report/%22,%22target%22:%22_blank%22,%22absolute%22:%22%22,%22linkText%22:%2240%20MLB%20players%20and%20staff%20members%20reportedly%20testing%20positive%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19, this might prove even trickier than all the recent salary negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the long-awaited start date for the season is great news for fans, it’s safe to say that Giants and A’s supporters won’t be getting inside Oracle Park or the Coliseum anytime soon. But take heart. Because for teams overseas, filling the stands has become a sport all of its own—especially in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The KBO League’s opening game between the SK Wyverns and the Hanwha Eagles set a reasonably sedate standard. The teams battled it out in front of row upon row of banners picturing mask- and baseball hat-wearing “fans.” Heartwarmingly, a message \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozq862L2CEo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">board of real fans\u003c/a> watching at home was also projected on the jumbotron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1222941975-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The stands at the empty SK Happy Dream Ballpark at the KBO League’s opening game between SK Wyvern and the Hanwha Eagles. May 05, 2020 in Incheon, South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1222941975-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1222941975-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1222941975-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1222941975-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1222941975.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stands at the empty SK Happy Dream Ballpark at the KBO League’s opening game between SK Wyvern and the Hanwha Eagles. May 05, 2020 in Incheon, South Korea. \u003ccite>(Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later in the month, the Hanwha Eagles took a much more fun (though probably less sanitary) approach to filling the stands at their Daejeon Hanbat Baseball Stadium—a large gathering of stuffed animals. Famous toys in attendance included SpongeBob SquarePants, Ted (of \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Ted \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2637276/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem> Ted 2\u003c/em>\u003c/a>), Mickey Mouse, Stitch (of \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275847/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Lilo & Stitch\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) and Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. \u003cem>Pokémon\u003c/em> had a whole crew there, including the likes of Squirtle, Snorlax and several Pikachus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DanielKimW/status/1265603803622957056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to putting \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbnation.com/2020/5/11/21254689/cardboard-fans-best-idea-crowdless-sports-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life-size renditions of BTS\u003c/a> in the stands, another KBO team, the NC Dinos, have allowed fans to send in photos of themselves to be subsequently turned into cardboard cut-outs. Alongside fan faces at one game were also images of players from North Carolina Minor League team, the Durham Bulls. (It’s not totally random—on May 4, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DurhamBulls/status/1257450961590763524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Bulls declared\u003c/a> on Twitter that they were NC Dinos fans.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/drewdepriest/status/1263830084840034305\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Minor League American mascots have been getting in on the act in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WoodpeckersNC/status/1266690820456869889\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taiwan offers a view of what it might look like when fans start to gain access to games again—very limited, socially distanced numbers, brightened up with a hefty dose of fun signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1223679901-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"The Fubon Guardians and Uni-Lions play in front of 1000 socially distanced fans at Taipei’s Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium on May 08, 2020. 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"content": "\u003cp>Attending opening night of A.C.T.’s production of \u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> on March 11 was a singular experience. Following an announcement from Mayor London Breed limiting gatherings to under 1,000 people, the theater was far from capacity, and, like a half-empty sports arena, the atmosphere was subdued, though expectant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Written by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by A.C.T.’s Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon, \u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> was meant to be a crowning jewel in a season themed the “rules of play.” But through no fault of its own, its opening night was overshadowed by an unfolding public health crisis—which eventually resulted in a shelter-in-place order with firm restrictions on public gatherings, including at theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under these unenviable circumstances, the show did go on. And the next morning, it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> is now being made \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available to watch online\u003c/a>, filmed on stage at the Geary Theater, in a unique arrangement \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also undertaken\u003c/a> by a handful of other theaters during the coronavirus shutdown. Tickets for the recorded performance are on a pay-what-you-will system. If you’re stuck at home, I recommend giving it a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because despite the external pressures on opening night, the cast and artistic team of \u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> knocked it out of the park. Chronicling the high point of the career of the first professional woman baseball player in the Negro Leagues, \u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> inhabits an episodic realm halfway between biopic and dramatic monologue, told through the perspective of its charismatic titular character, and supported by a strong team of eight additional players. Although a player for a short time with the San Francisco Sea Lions, \u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> is set during her later stint with the Indianapolis Clowns, the team with which she commanded the most attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_team_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_team_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_team_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_team_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_team_credit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_team_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Ursula as Toni Stone at A.C.T. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without preamble, Dawn Ursula as Toni Stone walks onstage to address the audience directly. Confident, solid, the embodiment of a consummate athlete, describing the weight of the ball as feeling like “what your hand, my hand, wanted all along.” As she describes herself and her preoccupation with the logistics of the game, her teammates enter the stage one by one, posing seriously with their bats. She introduces them with warm camaraderie—a litany of mostly forgotten, real-life players such as Spec (Daniel J. Bryant), King Tut (JaBen Early), and Elzie (Rodney Earl Jackson Jr.)—and the game begins in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they “play,” the team’s exemplary choreography (Camille A. Brown with movement coach Danyon Davis) fills the stage with something akin to the energy of a live game while the character of Toni delves into the specifics of it. Balls are tossed, bats swung, bases rounded, banter flies. With all of the measurements of the game divisible by three, they reference the holy trinity, declaring the playing field a church. Like angels, the players glide across the floorboards, slightly above the gritty fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_JaBenEarly_credit_KevinBerne-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_JaBenEarly_credit_KevinBerne-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_JaBenEarly_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_JaBenEarly_credit_KevinBerne-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_JaBenEarly_credit_KevinBerne-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ToniStone_DawnUrsula_JaBenEarly_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Ursula and JaBen Early on the off-season in ‘Toni Stone’ at A.C.T. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the idealized world of the theatrical, the raw sharp edges of life on the road are somewhat smoothed, addressing the many hardships faced by the team without forcing the actors to reenact each in too-excruciating detail. Forced to run from a crowd of racists during an exhibition game, the audience can feel reasonably certain that they’ll make it back to their van unscathed. Forced to ride through the night in search of a place to lay their heads, we know the bus will make it in one piece. Forced to sleep in a brothel in lieu of a hotel, Toni even makes a friend, the enigmatic Millie (Kenn E. Head), who offers some welcome comfort and sage advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But smoothed out certainly doesn’t mean edge-free, and the harsher realities of barnstorming in the League never stray far from the spotlight. A particularly agonizing sequence shows the players participating in the humiliating tradition of fifth-inning “clowning” during which their consummate athleticism becomes a framework for a minstrel-style show of synchronized soft-shoe and barely suppressed rage; pointedly implicating the watching audience. Toni must face and push back on the rampant sexism she encounters on and off the field, from threats of sexual violence to “helpful” suggestions that she wear a skirt as her uniform. 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It feels a little strange that the play omits the overlap between Toni’s short tenure with the Indianapolis Clowns with those of their subsequent hires—Mamie “Peanut” Johnson and Connie Morgan—but as it already clocks in at close to two-and-a-half hours, it’s hard to say where they would fit in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what feels almost like an outrageously improbable doomsday scenario, both theater productions \u003cem>and\u003c/em> major sporting events are effectively canceled for now, making the truncated run of this particular sports-themed show feel like a double whammy. But at least the show’s online stream ensures that the many years of work that went into this one production won’t be completely lost to posterity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took this many years for the Bay Area to give Toni Stone her due. 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Forced to run from a crowd of racists during an exhibition game, the audience can feel reasonably certain that they’ll make it back to their van unscathed. Forced to ride through the night in search of a place to lay their heads, we know the bus will make it in one piece. Forced to sleep in a brothel in lieu of a hotel, Toni even makes a friend, the enigmatic Millie (Kenn E. Head), who offers some welcome comfort and sage advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But smoothed out certainly doesn’t mean edge-free, and the harsher realities of barnstorming in the League never stray far from the spotlight. A particularly agonizing sequence shows the players participating in the humiliating tradition of fifth-inning “clowning” during which their consummate athleticism becomes a framework for a minstrel-style show of synchronized soft-shoe and barely suppressed rage; pointedly implicating the watching audience. Toni must face and push back on the rampant sexism she encounters on and off the field, from threats of sexual violence to “helpful” suggestions that she wear a skirt as her uniform. 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