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.

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

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.

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.