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 Rangers planned a packed stadium for its home opener on April 5, a move President Joe Biden called irresponsible.
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It isn’t just baseball - college basketball was allowing up to a quarter of seats filled for Final Four games, soccer seasonstarts April 17, and promoters are planning professional fights in filled-to-capacity arenas.