American - Historian | April 17, 1947 -
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
John Thorn
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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
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The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
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There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.
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This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
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We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
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Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
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