We don’t have a clear picture of how the sports world will look in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, but Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker thinks one staple of sports might fade away once the games return.
Baker, along with former Los Angeles Dodgers teammate Glenn Burke, is often credited with helping to create the high five in 1977. Now, Baker thinks that the pandemic may mean the end of that act due to its potential to spread disease.
“The high five is probably going to be no more,” Baker told Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
It’s too soon to really know for sure. Obviously, no one is going to be high fiving right now, and maybe not when sports returns. Assuming there is a successful vaccine at some point, that may be the catalyst needed for things like this to come back and return to prominence like they were before.
Hopefully a return to normalcy will also mean that Baker’s acts of kindness return, too.
