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Baseball is a game for writers.
Both in its own long history and in the light it sheds on the evolving culture around it, baseball is a rich vein for those who mine American history. As well, poetry is a thing of images, and the images baseball creates, both graceful and ugly, against its backdrop of deep green, crisp white, bright yellow, and open earth cannot be matched. It s a game for novelists, in the ever-widening diversity of its characters and storylines. Thus baseball is a fertile field for the imagination of the novelist, for anything may be tried. Any story that may be told may be told through baseball, and be sure of willing listeners because of that.