Old men sit outside barber shops telling of days gone by and of their favorite ballplayers, as if they were deities. Children run to drug stores to buy packs of overpriced pieces of cardboard, hoping that their idol's likeness will grace the front.
Baseball is the game of myth, of legend, and of dreams.
At Ball State, legends by the names of Howard, Urban, Dormann, McConnell, Witte, Farris, and Bigbie are being born. They are young men who someday could be mentioned alongside the likes of Mantle, DiMaggio, Mays, and Aaron. The myth that has come to be accepted today is that a Civil War hero named Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 in the town of Cooperstown, New York. There are some who would dispute that myth. Many baseball historians believe that Doubleday had nothing to do with baseball, let alone invent it.