America’s Fallen Pastime How Baseball Players Have Damaged a National Institution Baseball fans are easy to please. Give them a warm summer day, a cold drink, and their favorite team in the thick of the pennant race and they feel like kings. Watch them second guess the manager as he pulls the team’s ace pitcher in favor of the young fireballer. Listen to them cheer as he strikes out the opponents’ slugger with …showed first 75 words of 5460 total…

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