If Darwin ran baseball: A modest proposal for ensuring that the best teams play in the World Series. The boys of autumn: A review of The First Fall Classic by Mike Vacarro, Perfect by Lew Paper and The Machine by Joe Posnanski. Gregory McNamee on Baseball: America’s game, and the world’s. A review of Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America by Joseph Price. Baseball continues to be the sport where Jews have the most success — why is that? An interview with Jennifer Ring, author of Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball. Baseball is a game of failure, as these bizarre and unfortunate occurrences illustrate (and part 2). Dealing with tragedy in the minor leagues: When Mike Coolbaugh died on the field, the lives of his family members and of the man whose foul ball killed him were changed

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