BASEBALL IS THE GREATEST GAME

Baseball Is The Greatest

Game is a thesis proving

that baseball is our

greatest game and

should be regarded

as our only National

Pastime. Besides being

a pastoral game of great

beauty—a double play

is like ballet, the most

graceful thing to watch

in any team sport—

baseball is attendant

to our culture and

history like no other.

It matches the seasons

and rhythms of our lives,

coming to us each year with our rising hopes in the spring and leaving us as we

retreat into the cold certainty of fall.

Like no other sport, baseball has drawn the affections of our finest writers. Besides

noted baseball scribes Roger Angel, Roger Kahn, and Thomas Boswell, celebrated

authors like Barnard Malamud, Phillip Roth, and W.P. Kinsella have been inspired

to write works of fiction about baseball that belong on the bookshelves of great

literature.

Baseball doesn’t forget its past. It comes back to us over and over on a timeless

continuum that allows us to admire and compare the game’s present heroes and

their accomplishments with all who have gone on before. Most of all, baseball is fun.