We would not boast of this, but for two serious reasons. He places himself at once among and above the fabled men of power down through the decades, the men who could by a single act dominate the game of inches, of speed, of finesse, of calculation.
Baseball is the national pastime.
Foolish people have written in recent years that baseball is a sport for liberals. Baseball is instead vitally American, the series of individual performances that make by some mystery a team game. George Washington, it is said, played rounders with his officers during the Revolutionary War. Playing baseball tunes a man up to fight for freedom. The second is that Mac has set a standard of comportment that any father would commend to his son or mother to her daughter.