An Ode to Baseball ; All That's Good About the Game
The Washington Times › August 07, 2006
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As a child, George Vecsey would sit with his father on their lawn and listen to Brooklyn Dodgers games. "I remem-
ber three things about those nights: how nice it was to have my father home, the rude shock when I plugged the radio into the garage socket, and the fireflies floating around dusk," he writes in the prologue to "Baseball." "There are no fireflies like that anymore. No Brooklyn Dodgers, either."See the full content of this document
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An Ode to Baseball ; All That's Good About the Game
Telling tales of the good ol' days, when baseball was the undisputed national pastime, has become especially common of late. It's the way many fans and journalists have consoled themselves in the midst of baseball's steroids scandal and the rising popularity of football, basketball and NASCAR.
The mythical past is just that, however mythical. So it was a relief to discover t...See the full content of this document
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