When hope is derailed because it costs too much, your passion fades. Without passion, sports is dead. And baseball becomes something less to you than it once was. It's hard to imagine saying that in this town. Next to St. Louis, Cincinnati is baseball's best place.
People take the game personally here.
Baseball might be a night out in L.A., or a beer-soaked day in the sun in Chicago. It's more than that here. At least it was. If you see Bowden, buy a pencil. Baseball Cards Full line of memorabilia, cards and supplies.