Volume 38, Number 12 · June 27, 1991
Foul Ball
By George F. Will
Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti
by James Reston Jr.
HarperCollins/Edward Burlingame Books, 326 pp., $19.95
Baseball is a game of episodic action rather than of flow (as in basketball or soccer). Discrete events stand out. The players are dispersed around a large space. And it is the American sport with the longest season and longest history. These are among the reasons it has such a strong institutional memory. One savors one's memories of episodes, so much so that A. Bartlett Giamatti, the late commissioner, said that baseball is, in a sense, the conversation about it.
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