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For fans, Opening Day is like Baseball New Year. It’s a time to celebrate a new season, a brand new start for every team and the beginning of warmer temperatures around the country. But for the first time since 1973, the Indians will be without their outfield drummer for their home opener.
“I should be dead,” John Adams said.
Adams has been known as the man with the enormous bass drum in the outfield bleachers for decades. But it was around this time last year that he started to feel a little bit off. He experienced symptoms like shortness of breath, exhaustion and weakness. He then broke four ribs and recovered, but never regained his strength. His health slowly kept declining until December, when it hit rock bottom.