The team now has more than a dozen players, and the community has come together to ensure these kids learn more than just hitting, fielding, and running the bases.

I said it sounded like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, an artifact of my 1980s childhood. I hate virtual school, Billy said. It was the latest cruel twist in my kids' pandemic lives, another adventure they can't choose. If the only adventure they can choose is to push a button on a remote control, then we are failing them. ___Virus Diary, an occasional feature, showcases the coronavirus pandemic through the eyes of AP journalists around the world.