Why Should I Like Baseball?
I begin my journey into the world of sports, a world I am completely ignorant of.
I'm getting ready to follow a full season of baseball for the first time in my entire life. Men like sports, or so I'm told, so in order to explore what makes sports so meaningful, I've turned to an expert guest—a friend currently working with the Minnesota Twins—who will guide me through my initial thoughts about baseball. This is a great conversation and one I'm sure you'll enjoy. Even if the baseball season never happens! (yikes)
Please comment below with your thoughts about what I should do to experience sports this year: What sports, what teams, what players will really teach me what I have been missing all these years?
Watch the entire Ken Burns series on baseball, which will be both inspiration and education itself, and then get a simple notebook to “score” at least a couple of the games you watch—charting the action in an elegant, clear way that will not only help you focus on what’s happening, but allow you to relive the game batter-by-batter and inning-by-inning, seeing clearly what brought about the scoring and the game’s conclusion.