Collect them all

Baseball season is just about over, although professional sports seasons don’t end with the finality they once did. For the next few months, fans will be able to listen to podcasts tracking trades and scrutinize player Instagram accounts chronicling strength regimens. The game is almost perpetual now.

It wasn’t that way a generation ago, when fans in the wintertime had to make do with casual chatter and their card collections, pieced together pack-by-pack.