The boys of summer are back. If all goes well, Major League Baseball returns next week with a shortened 60-game season. It won’t be the standard 162 games. It won’t go from early spring to late fall. Instead, it will last just a little over three months, beginning July 23 and running through Sept. 27, with playoffs in October. Don’t you wish presidential campaigns were that long? The timing of this baseball season start isn’t lost on me. It makes me think of the anniversary of my first open-heart surgery – July 24, 2001 – to remove a benign cardiac tumor the size of a tennis ball. Nineteen years later, I’m still…