BASEBALL IS THE GREATEST GAME

Ted Field

2024年10月 · AuthorHouse

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Baseball Is The Greatest Game is a thesis proving that baseball is our greatest game and should be regarded as our only National Pastime. Besides being a pastoral game of great beauty—a double play is like ballet, the most graceful thing to watch in any team sport— baseball is attendant to our culture and history like no other. It matches the seasons and rhythms of our lives, coming to us each year with our rising hopes in the spring and leaving us as we retreat into the cold certainty of fall. Like no other sport, baseball has drawn the affections of our finest writers. Besides noted baseball scribes Roger Angel, Roger Kahn, and Thomas Boswell, celebrated authors like Barnard Malamud, Phillip Roth, and W.P. Kinsella have been inspired to write works of fiction about baseball that belong on the bookshelves of great literature. Baseball doesn’t forget its past. It comes back to us over and over on a timeless continuum that allows us to admire and compare the game’s present heroes and their accomplishments with all who have gone on before. Most of all, baseball is fun.

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Ted Field is the author of The Well (a novel), The Christmas Stories (a collection of essays), and American Trail (a novel). He attended his first Major League baseball game in 1958 and in the many years since has been an avid fan enjoying the game played at all levels. After his fourth visit to Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Ted was inspired to combine his views about baseball’s place in our culture and history with what he read from great baseball writers like Roger Angel and Thomas Boswell, and write the definitive thesis that proves why baseball is the greatest game and our true National Pastime. Past the age of 70, Ted still collects baseball cards. He recalls advice he got from his father many years ago, when he told Ted on his 12th birthday that “ twelve is a tough age for a boy because he’s too young for girls and too old for baseball cards.” He wishes he could tell his father how mistaken he was, but admit that maybe a boy is always too young for girls. Ted and his wife live in Minnesota cheering for the Twins.