NEW YORK — The passage of time is an unavoidable conversation these days for Rob Manfred, the 66-year-old commissioner of Major League Baseball. Sitting in a conference room at his Manhattan office this month, he scurried out mid-sentence to retrieve a piece of paper, a small square with ruled interlocking lines and a dot in the middle called an Amsler grid.
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“So, when you’re older,” he said on his return, “your eye doctor will probably give you one of these.”
In August, sensing an issue with his right eye, Manfred looked at the grid and saw only black on one side. The next day he was in surgery to repair a
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