![]() ![]() How else can you describe a sport where the very best hitters fail seven out of every ten times they enter the batter’s box? Or where the very best teams leave the park losers at least sixty times during the season?Īs great as baseball is, it is a sport surrounded, cloaked and otherwise ensconced in failure.įailure does bring one thing that success rarely does - a chance for introspection. ![]() With that sublime inspiration, there also comes a callous reality to the game. ![]() From World Wars to Pleasantville and back to war again, there was baseball.įrom radios to broadband, streetcars to subways, and megaphones to smartphones, there was baseball. It also doesn’t hurt that certain men named Cobb, Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Mantle, Musial and DiMaggio, along with so many others, brought a heroic presence to the lives of millions, through both the best and worst times of our nation’s history.įrom roaring economic excess to crashing stock markets, there was baseball. The creation of the sport is itself a tale of American folklore, and Americans are wary to trudge on the sagas of their history. The baseball season itself begins in the spring, coinciding in time with nature’s yearly rejuvenation, and continues through summer when the weather is dry and the days are long enough to play two. The methodical pace of play between pitcher and catcher, as well as batter and fielder, allow for easy conversation among friends. ![]() The game’s greatness shines for several reasons. Baseball became America’s pastime almost immediately from the sport’s inception. ![]()
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