A look back at a hot baseball season

It's hard to imagine that another regular season for MLB is set to wrap up. As we look back on the season, it's sometimes easy to forget some of the challenges that players faced in the earlier parts of the season. One huge challenge that faced nearly all players across all teams was dealing with the heat throughout the summer.

Let's take a look at an article (paywall) from June that recounts the issues that the Pittsburgh Pirates catchers had with the early summer heat, and how they used the CoolMitt in the dugout between innings to keep themselves refreshed and performing as well as they could, given the hot circumstances.

#heatdumping #palmcooling #thermoregulation #CoolMitt