If you are even a merely casual fan of Major League Baseball—if you aren’t among those we keep hearing about, who have lost interest entirely, or one of the multitude of younger people who, we’re told, never have paid any attention to MLB—you will know that the 2024 season started earlier this week in an unconventional fashion. It began in South Korea, with a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers (featuring the great Shohei Ohtani, in Dodger uniform for the first time) and the San Diego Padres. The season will commence for the rest of the teams in a few days. Hence it is time, in this column, for a piece with a bookish baseball hook (or, in this case, a double hook).
