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How can you not be romantic about baseball? Think of all the ways to fall in love with this sport. You might love the idyllic summer afternoon, a cold beer and a country song and a hot dog while the local nine plays in the background of a good time with your friends and family. You might love the highwire acts of October baseball, the chess match between the game’s most fearsome closer and all-star slugger with a pennant on the line. You might get a kick out of the innocence of youth ball, or the promise of college kids in a wood bat league, or the various ways the game has evolved in international leagues, or an old-timer’s day at the stadium. Maybe you first fell in love with baseball cards, or understand the sport through the egghead lens of the sabermetrician, or marvel at the athletic prowess of MLB’s brightest stars. Maybe you can’t help but understand baseball as America, its triumphs and its evils, the history of capital vs labor and western expansion and civil rights and television stardom intertwined with a game. Maybe it’s all of the above. Continue reading →