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July 1, 2021 |
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2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Baseball Memorabilia
A Look At Baseball Memorabilia Created By The
Coronavirus Pandemic. |
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| Baseball memorabilia associated with tragedy will typically have a
low collectors value. But, it is an historic documentation that tells
the story to future generations of a time of national crisis, and loss
of life. Baseball helped us cope with it, by returning some normalcy to
our daily lives. The bravery of our healthcare workers putting
themselves in the path of this virus will never be forgotten. |
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Major League Baseball cancelled the remainder of its Spring Training games on
March 12, and announced that the start of the 2020 regular season, which was to
start on March 26, will be delayed by at least two weeks due to the national
emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic.
As it turned out, the 2020 regular season did not begin until July 23 in
Washington, with cardboard cut-outs replacing the fans in the stands for the
remainder of the season.
Tickets and pocket schedules are printed months in advance to be ready for
the start of the baseball season. Millions of phantom pocket schedules, and
tickets would become nothing more than historic artifacts, for an unprecedented
60 game Pandemic baseball season.
The Field of Dreams game between the Chicago White Sox and New York
Yankees, originally scheduled for August 13, 2020, as highlighted on the
schedule below was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Major League Baseball announced the Field of Dreams Game, is tentatively
scheduled for Aug. 12, 2021, at the Dyersville, Iowa, site that hosted the film
of the same name. The Field of Dreams Game will be the first Major League
Baseball game ever played in Iowa.
The bulk of the collectors value for a ticket relies on a significant game
event, or player milestone. 2020 regular season tickets lack any attributes of
any significance, other than the game was cancelled due to the pandemic. With
millions printed, and made available to the market, the pandemic baseball
tickets are nothing more than a novelty.
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 Before the start of the 2020
pandemic baseball season, the league's set health protocols and testing plans.
Among the steps taken to help ensure safety throughout the 60-game season,
players were required to wear masks during the games.
The quarantined fans battling cabin fever were more than happy watching
the games in the safety of home, but when heading out to the store to buy
♪♪Some Peanuts and Crackerjacks ♪♪ also had to wear masks. The retail market
was then flooded with team branded face masks.
 Now in 2021, the fans are
finally returning to the ball parks, and marketers are calling them "MLB
Gameday Face Masks." The perfect accessory for baseball fans! WinCraft, the
company that produces most of the souvenir pennants sold at the ballpark jumped
into the face mask business by introducing the
2021 MLB Spring Training face
covers.
The 2-ply barrier non-medical grade, one size fits most, lightweight face covers
feature slits to place your ear through. A "portion of the
proceeds fight Covid-19" Wincraft also produces the officially license face
covers representing all Major League baseball teams. The back of the display
cards have a disclosure of risks and wavier of Liability. "The Fan Mask Face
Cover is the best everyday mask to show your team spirit."
 In 2020 Cubs slugging
second baseman Ian Happ partnered with Connect Roasters, a coffee roasting
company that sends part of its sales to community organizations where it grows
its coffee, to give back to COVID-19 relief efforts.
Happ and Connect Roasters released a line of coffee,
Quarantine Coffee, where part of the sales will go directly to COVID-19
relief efforts. Each bag of coffee sells for $15 and $3 from each bag sold goes
to COVID-19 relief charities. In a letter written by Happ, "a coffee
connoisseur" he states "Buy a bag. Enjoy Quarantine Coffee and let’s help grow
the COVID-19 relief effort one cup at a time."
 On July 23 in Washington,
the 2020 baseball season was started with a ceremonial first pitch thrown out
by Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases. The 79-year-old Brooklyn native and a ardent Washing
Nationals fan, wore a Nationals jersey, hat and facemask. Topps Now® issued a
card to celebrate the occasion.
TOPPS NOW® celebrates the greatest moments in Sports and
Entertainment... as they happen! TOPPS NOW® trading cards are available for 24
hours only, offered exclusively on Topps.com, and include Free Shipping. Print
runs of every card are announced on Topps.com so you know how rare your cards
are!
 The 2020 All-Star Game
planned to be hosted on July 14 by the Los Angeles Dodgers and the City of Los
Angeles, was cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. With the Atlanta Braves
already named as host of the 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta* the Dodgers will
host the next available Midsummer Classic in 2022. It was the first
cancellation since 1945, when the All-Star Game that year was not held in
compliance with wartime travel restrictions at the time.
Rawlings, the supplier of Major League baseballs since 1977, made the
Official
2020 commemorate All-Star baseball available to collectors. The baseballs come
in a clear display case.
*League officials have moved the 2021 All-Star game to Coors Field for
political Reasons.
 Travel restriction due to
the Covid-19 Pandemic prevented broadcasters from traveling with the team. The
home team’s broadcasters did the games in the usual ballpark set up, but each
separated by a barrier. Visiting teams did the play-by-play off of monitors
from remote studio locations or from an empty home stadium. Some did the games
from a studio set up in their home.
Yankees broadcaster Paul O’Neill does commentary from his home, "Paul's
Basement" Ohio U.S.A., 500 miles from Yankee Stadium. Dubbed "Studio 21,"
T-Shirts were made and became a big hit with Yankee Fans.
The 2020 COVID-19 Postseason format, will go down as one of the most
unique in baseball history. MLB expanded it to 16 teams and added a
best-of-three Wild Card Series played at the higher seed’s home ballpark. The
Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series were played in
neutral "bubble" sites in Arlington, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
Players, coaches, staff and media members were confined to their hotel rooms
and the ballpark, unable to participate in any outside activities.
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MLB allowed a limited number of fans at the NLCS between the Atlanta
Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as the World Series between the Dodgers
and Tampa Bay Rays. There were a little more than 11,000 fans permitted to each
of the six World Series games played at Globe Life Field in Texas. 2020
was the Inaugural season for the home ballpark of the Texas Rangers.
 The Los Angeles Dodgers(4)
beat the Tampa Bay Rays(2) in the best of seven series. It was the first time
the world Series was played entirely at one site since 1944. The World
Series was last played at one site in 1944 at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis,
where the Cardinals beat the Browns 4 games to 2.
New York’s Polo Grounds hosted all the games in 1921 and 1922, the last
two seasons it was the home of both the New York Giants and Yankees. The Giants
won both titles.
The Rawlings Official 2020 World Series baseballs were also
made available to collectors.
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