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What baseball can learn about COVID-19 case spikes and crowd size from the NFL’s 2020 season

  • Written by Alex R. Piquero, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami
What baseball can learn about COVID-19 case spikes and crowd size from the NFL’s 2020 seasonWhether stadiums can fill up next season may depend on vaccines.Harry How/Getty Images

Baseball season is here, and thousands of cheering fans are back in the ballparks after a year of empty seats and cardboard cutouts as fan stand-ins. Still cautious of the COVID-19 risk, most teams were keeping season openers to 20-30% capacity. Only the Texas...

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