Sunshine delay

[Robert Goodman]

I read some decades ago in Sports Illustrated of a varsity hardball game in upstate NY that, due to the same circumstance, was, in the PU's words, "sunned out". It was said they'd already cancelled quite a few games for snow-covered ground, so a sun cancell'n was especially vexing.

One thing I wonder is whether you may be seeing this on fields where you wouldn't've previously, because they're playing deeper into the calendar than previously. I don't remember seeing softball games this time of year when I was that age. The sun may line up in ways that weren't anticipated when the season came earlier.