The Republic of Baseball

We are players or spectators of other sports, but citizens of baseball. Its Nielsen ratings and attendance figures go up and down, but it remains inextricably part of the American imagination.

TED WILLIAMS began his autobiography by saying that when he was a kid, his only ambition was to have people say, as he walked down the street, “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.” My own autobiography could start the same way. It would end differently, though.

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Joseph Sobran

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We are players or spectators of other sports, but citizens of baseball. Its Nielsen ratings and attendance figures go up and down, but it remains inextricably part of the American imagination.

TED WILLIAMS began his autobiography by saying that when he was a kid, his only ambition was to have people say, as he walked down the street, “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.” My own autobiography could start the same way. It would end differently, though.