Baseball

    
Baseball

I went to a Pirate Grapefruit League game.

It was fun and interesting despite the game being between the Pirates and the Orioles, the two lowest payrolls in the Major Leagues, two teams that spend one-tenth, one-tenth, of the team budget of the LA Dodgers. That's the entire Pirate's starting lineup would pay for one Dodger starter. That disparity shows.

Yet the game is so human. And the game is so intricate, so much a gathering of individual strengths and weaknesses, power and subtly, that one regrets the muting of the game's potential with the coarsest of motives, greed.

But the game itself is so strong a distillation of men and human projects that one tries to salute the uniform and not the man.