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| Illustration by Signe Wilkinson from the Philadelphia Inquirer Daily News |
GUEST EXCERPT / By Barry Svrluga, sports columnist, the Washington Post.—Major League Baseball in America must learn from these pandemic outbreaks, or it teetering season is doomed.
As MLB grapples with COVID-19, it lacks a blueprint, a precedent and any certainty about whether it will succeed.
“...I hope people look at what happened to us and they use that as a warning and just see how quickly this is able to spread between a particular group if you’re not following the protocols 100 percent,” Marlins CEO Derek Jeter said. “We’re battling something that’s invisible here. You can’t see it. You don’t know where it starts. You don’t know how it gets there.”
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About the Writer:
Sports columnist Barry Svrluga, with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football came to The Washington Post in 2003 after working at newspapers in Corning, N.Y.; Portland, Maine; and Raleigh, N.C. At those stops, he covered topics including NASCAR, high school lacrosse and the Final Four. At The Post, he has covered college basketball and football, the Washington Nationals, and the Washington Football Club (nee Redskins). He is a regular member of The Post's Olympics team, dating to the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, and he became a columnist for the Sports section in 2016.
Education: Duke University, BA in history.
About the Illustrator:
Signe Wilkinson has been drawing editorial cartoons for the Philadelphia Daily News since 1985. She is grateful to all the politicians and the Commissioners of baseball, who have done so much for her trade.
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