IT’S FEBRUARY, AND ONCE AGAIN, it’s spring training season. I’m in Orlando, Florida, on assignment for MLB.com covering the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, and my attention is monopolized by the sprawling artificiality of the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. That’s when I notice the Sandhill Cranes.
The breeding pair live here amid stadiums, arenas, and multipurpose fields, a reminder that this land used to be swamp.
