You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. — Jim BoutonThomas Boswell, the long-time sportswriter for the Washington Post, wrote a timeless piece collected in a book of the same name, Why Time Begins On Opening Day, published in 1984. Boswell muses on the "resolute grasp" that baseball maintains for so many of us" and why our "affection for the game has held steady for decades, maybe even grown with age." He asks what baseball is doing among our other "first-rate passions." And, indeed, when one looks over the posts on this blog, it could seem incongruous to have baseball pieces interrupting the rants on politics and pleas for social justice. Boswell explains that "in contrast to the unwieldy world which we hold in common, baseball offers a kingdom built to human scale. Its problems and questions…
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