Commentary
Both the sport of softball and the devastation of wildfires were prominent in the news last week. The University of Oklahoma Sooners won their third consecutive national title, finishing the season on an astonishing 53-game win streak and with a final record of 61–1. Meanwhile, farther north, air quality was so bad as a result of forest fires in Canada that major league baseball games were canceled in cities such as New York and Philadelphia.
More on both of those stories in a moment. First, let me tell you the story of why I’m pairing two such seemingly unrelated topics as softball and wildfires in the same article….