I see great things in baseball. It’s our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set…and be a blessing to us. ~ Walt Whitman. I have always loved baseball. I first loved to listen to baseball. It’s one of my few memories of my maternal grandfather. He played pinochle, drank Ballantine beer and smoked cigars, while the Brooklyn Dodgers played on the radio in the background. If you approached him, he put down his cigar; fished a pile of butterscotch balls out of his pocket for you, patted you on the head, and went back [...]...
