Law & Liberty
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There is a purity of baseball when it is played for leisure, when fans come out in an evening or on a leisurely weekend afternoon, ready to take in a ball game, whatever comes.
There is leisure in the rhythm of the game through the repetitive sound of the ball hitting the catcher’s glove.
Baseball is properly viewed with a contemplative, quiet disposition, open to whatever may come, whether it is a low-scoring pitcher or a duel.
Major League Baseball seems bent on becoming a place of entertainment and capitalistic gain, author says.
Baseball embodies this letting of things take their course, in their leisurely, methodic way.
MLB announced their new family-friendly rules this year, including using larger bases and incorporating a pitch clock, “shorter games” and “more runs” fans asked for more runs.
Bob Greene: Mindless entertainment drains our minds, lowers our intellectual capacity, and makes it harder for us to sit still and contemplate beauty and the divine.
Greene: Most people do not realize that this is a true human need, what we are meant for.
He says the only action on the field was from the ball being thrown and hit, but humans ran the game with their own sense and minds.
Greene says the Minnesota Townball League embodied the joy and leisure of baseball for him.
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