Can Sports Help Heal a Country? Some Fans Don’t Buy the Emotional Pleas
Scott Boras, a baseball agent, portrayed the sport as a savior in an op-ed in The New York Times last week. “Time and time again, baseball has helped our country heal,” he wrote, citing its role after the strike on Pearl Harbor, the 1989 earthquake in Northern California, the Boston Marathon bombing and the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/sports/baseball/coronavirus-sports-comeback.html