Even devoted baseball fans marvel at the length of the regular season.
At 162 games, it is twice as long--in number of games--as the NBA season, the next longest.
Players can go weeks without a single day off, leading to their common name for the schedule: The Grind.
Those two words are also the title of a book by Barry Svrluga, baseball writer for the Washington Post.
He shares stories of the wear-and-tear of the long season in the book, and joins us with insights.