And this is worth reading, I think. If you’re a baseball fan, that is:

Michael Kazin: Why Baseball Is The Best—And Least Exploitative—American Sport | The New Republic: ” In The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach’s delicious first novel, a wise young college catcher reflects on “the almost unfair beauty of a professional ball field, the expensive riotous green of the grass, the scalloped cutouts around the bases, the whole place groomed like living art.” You get to drink beer and yell at the umpire too.”

Via:The New Republic: Why Baseball Is The Best . . ..)