CHICAGO – Standing on a corner on Waveland Avenue, Moe Mullins has seen them come and go.Sosa and McGwire. The Sandberg Game.
Pujols. Young and old men alike. Summers full of blue skies, and a neighborhood changed forever.“You know, life is a big circle,” Mullins says.Like a baseball.While Major League Baseball is beginning this season without fans in its stadiums, the famed ballhawks of Wrigley Field remain at their post amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The banter is free and easy, like a street-side barbershop full of old friends, and pretty much everyone is fair game.It's the same as it has been for decades, only with protective masks and — when there isn't a ball soaring over the fence — appropriate social distancing.“We're baseball.