Talking about sports becomes a way for the biggest, richest business man on Wall Street to form a bond with the poorest, shrimpiest kids out on the street. So, people we have never met, people who grew up in different eras or areas are suddenly on common ground when sports is the topic. Because in the eyes of sports, they're equals. That's a little harder to pin down. Maybe it's because sports are a natural extension of human exuberance.
Sports can capture the mind's imagination and body's possibilities.
For a few hours a weekend, we can release the tensions of tests, traffic and arguments to just root, root, root for the home team. When they need a conversation, sports can provide. Sports is universal human therapy simply because it is the most user-friendly simulation of real life anyone has come up with yet. Somehow, through the magic of human imagination we have managed to take games governed by boundaries, rules, lines and clocks and turn them into our history, heritage and legacy. And, in turn, those men's names represent memories of watching ballgames with family, reading box scores and playing in the driveway.