Baseball is a game of both open spaces and finite dimensions. In many urban areas, the biggest piece of grass you can find is a baseball field. No matter how high the walls around the field may be, the game will inevitably spill out over them. Yet for all the 37 foot walls and five hundred foot homeruns, ninety feet between bases is the closest thing to perfection man has ever achieved. Divine intervention, perhaps.
Baseball is truly America s game.
I realize that s a cliche, but it is just too true to deny. As America goes, so goes baseball. The game grew through it s adolescence as the country experienced it s industrial revolution. As villages grew into towns, towns grew into cities, and cities grew into metropoli, their baseball teams were right there, growing with them. In 1908 the Black Sox Scandal cost baseball its innocence.