A new season for baseball & our shared humanity Huntington, L.I.: Perhaps it was the March 22 back-page headline: “PLAY BALL!” Or better yet, it was Bill Madden’s excellent and heartfelt column “Classic was a classic” (March 22) wonderfully describing Team Italy’s thrilling performance in the World Baseball Classic that conjured the pure joy and magical memories that Opening Day still gives. After a brutal cold winter with record snowfalls, tariff issues and now the war in Iran, the distraction of a new baseball season couldn’t come soon enough, with the Yankees playing MLB’s first game at San Francisco. Baseball...