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    Your Odes to Summer

    Baseball, mosquitoes, and the best songs for the season.
    by Conor Friedersdorf Jul 11, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Monica Gumm / laif / Redux

    This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.

    Last week, I asked readers to opine on summer among the seasons––and I solicited nominees for the best summer songs. I’ll conclude today with some song nominations of my own.

    Jaleelah loves a summer ball game:

    There’s nothing I love more about summer than baseball in Toronto. Baseball may have once been America’s favorite pastime, but nothing unites Canada quite like backing the Raptors in the winter and cheering for the Blue Jays in the summer.

    I am one of the few women in the city who umpires baseball games. I started officiating house-league games when I was 14, and it was terrifying.

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