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

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

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

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

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

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