Today is the eve of another baseball season. Each Opening Day I remember why it is the best game around. It brings us out of doors after long winters. What other sport has inspired so many good books? And what other sport can claim that it lured away the president of Yale University to be its commissioner?
That former commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti, wrote of baseball: "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.''
Fall is a long way off. Tomorrow is the beginning of spring. Play ball.
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