Old reliables still strike the right chord for baseball

“It’s very… American, isn’t it?” Baseball is a cornerstone of Americana that has helped me get past that attitude.

I don’t knock the knockers because I too have held that cynicism about the Yanks, their booming voices, their lack of self-awareness or knowledge about where Ukraine might be located.

Baseball knows itself. It has always stood to attention and admired itself, no matter how high the stockings go, how low the cap sits or how sterile a season might be for so many of the teams.