Baseball Is the Greatest Game

Baseball Is The GreatestGame is a thesis provingthat baseball is ourgreatest game andshould be regardedas our only NationalPastime. Besides beinga pastoral game of greatbeauty-a double playis like ballet, the mostgraceful thing to watchin any team sport-baseball is attendantto our culture andhistory like no other.It matches the seasonsand rhythms of our lives,coming to us each year with our rising hopes in the spring and leaving us as weretreat into the cold certainty of fall.Like no other sport, baseball has drawn the affections of our finest writers. Besidesnoted baseball scribes Roger Angel, Roger Kahn, and Thomas Boswell, celebratedauthors like Barnard Malamud, Phillip Roth, and W.P. Kinsella have been inspiredto write works of fiction about baseball that belong on the bookshelves of greatliterature.Baseball doesn't forget its past. It comes back to us over and over on a timelesscontinuum that allows us to admire and compare the game's present heroes andtheir accomplishments with all who have gone on before. Most of all, baseball is fun.