Baseball Bearings: Why The National Pastime Strikes So Close to Home

The past few weeks—the subsiding of April, intiations of June—have brought me back to first things, to primary knowledge...to baseball.

I've been thinking about the way baseball, much more than, say, football, serves as a figure for American life, how it is precisely this figurative aspect that renders the game so engrossing. Read more... (opens in new tab)