It’s time again to talk about the National Pastime. Baseball season is starting this coming week. (I know that there was a quasi-start in Australia on March 22-23 with two Dodger wins; that doesn’t count.)
Back in one of baseball’s Golden Ages, the 1950s, there seemed little debate about what sport was the national pastime. … Nowadays, however, everyone assumes that professional football has displaced baseball as the National Pastime. I am here to argue otherwise. CONT.
Claude Fischer, UC Berkeley