A new record was made. People who never followed baseball, were somehow pulled into a process that raised one man above the rest. Suddenly, with the one more home run a local God was created. There is something very much part of the human experience that demands a hero. Heroes come in odd collections from baseball players to presidents, from the Spice Girls to Hulk Hogan.
Heroes are hard to predict.
They can be one soldier left behind in Serbia, a man who has been on the moon, a firefighter who pulls a baby from a burning building or a rock star who has more make-up than the next one. All societies need to have heroes. The psychologist, Carl Jung wrote extensively on the need for basic fantasies to allow us to grow psychologically normal. The myth of the hero is an important one. We have all fantasized about the Knight in Shining Armor facing insurmountable odds.