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REPAIRING GOVERNANCE
A “no” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Baseball is the American pastime. As Annie Savoy, Susan Sarandon’s baseball-obsessed character in Bull Durham tells us, even the great poet Walt Whitman was beguiled by it. Annie quotes Whitman: “I see great things in baseball. It’s our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.”
Indeed, for more than a hundred years, every year from April to October, baseball was a cornerstone of what it meant to be American, up there, famously, with Mom and apple pie. Kids played sandlot ball, dreamed of making it to the big leagues, and shared in ...
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