If you're a baseball player, then college is for you

The College World Series is scheduled to get underway this Saturday with Texas Tech taking on Michigan in the opener in Omaha, Neb.

I can hear the overwhelming chorus of “Who cares?” now. It’s true that when it comes to NCAA sports and their respective post-seasons, baseball doesn’t have quite the same luster that March Madness has with basketball, or the College Football Playoffs does for Division I football.

Part of that might be the fact that it’s played after all of the participating schools have adjourned for the summer. Most of the student bodies are gone, and hence there’s a reduction i...