More thoughts on baseball............ I have been thinking hard about baseball while I’ve been here. And about sports, why we play them, why they are important to us, and how they become important to us. And I think about how structured sport is in the US, even at the youth level (YMCA, Rainbow Soccer, Challenger, Little League, Pop Warner football…). Take little league baseball, for example. There is a clear structure for how it works. There is the coach. He is in charge of bringing the balls, helmets, gear, some bats….he is in charge of making sure the field is ready for play when his team is the home one. The league provides him with equipment, guidance for how things should be run. There are the parents, their job is to bring their kids to the
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