Baseball Has Undergone And Absorbed A Whole

Winning Has A Joy And Discrete Purity To It That Cannot Be Replaced By Anything Else. Winning Is Important To Any Man's Or Woman's Sense Of Satisfaction And Well-being. Winning Is Not Everything; But It Is Something Powerful, Indeed Beautiful, In Itself, Something As Necessary To The Strong Spirit As Striving Is Necessary To The Healthy Character.

On Matters Of Race, On Matters Of Decency, Baseball Should Lead The Way.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

All Play Aspires To The Condition Of Paradise...through Play In All Its Forms...we Hope To Achieve A State That Our Larger Greco-roman, Judeo- Christian Culture Has Always Known Was Lost. Where It Exists, We Do Not Know, Although We Always Have Envisioned It As A Garden...always As Removed, As An Enclosed Green Place...paradise Is An Ancient Dream...it Is A Dream Of Ourselves As Better Than We Are, Back To What We Were.

There Are Many Who Lust For The Simple Answers Of Doctrine Or Decree. They Are On The Left And Right. They Are Not Confined To A Single Part Of The Society. They Are Terrorists Of The Mind.