Baseball leaves a footprint of all its games on our minds in a way continuous-action sports can't.
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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.John Thorn
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
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Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.
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