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Baseball's Jeremiad, Richard C. Crepeau
Baseball's Jeremiad, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
Over the past two years baseball writers and commentators have pronounced the death or serious illness of the national pastime. The chorus of complaints has become deafening. To those who know their history this is not a surprise. This sort of jeremiad has marked nearly every decade in baseball history.