It might have happened to the Yankees, as many of sound judgment thought it would, but it happened to the Dodgers. Let the great psychiatrist try to explain how or why. But even bad art, even the worst, is better than no art at all, because the fact that here is such a thing at all is the important thing, and if it is almost always bad, at least now and then, once in along while it is great, and just a little of the great goes a long way. Forever, you might say. And in this Series there was quite a lot of art.
Baseball tells a nation's story.
Among the reporters who regularly cover baseball are those who have become writers of style, wit and humor, and it may be that they are turning out the best folk writing of our nation.