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Baseball, like life in the traditional, agrarian world, is hard. Scarcity is its natural condition. Scoring totals are lower than in football or basketball. Sometimes a team fails entirely to score: "Shutouts" are more frequent in baseball than in football, where they are rare, and in basketball, where they are unknown. And just as premodern hunters often trudged home empty-handed after a long day in the field, so to play baseball is to experience frequent, indeed chronic, failure. The best batters fail to hit safely in seventy percent of their official at-bats. A successful major league team, one that wins one hundred games in a season—and most fall short of this—will lose more than sixty times.To succeed at baseball therefore requires the emotional capacity to confront and accept failure, to persevere in the face of failure, and to proceed with confidence despite the repeated experience of failure, which were also the attitudes necessary to endure the conditions of traditional existence. The required outlook was summarized by one of the greatest of all batters, Henry Aaron. Asked whether he arrived at the ballpark every day knowing that he was going to get two hits, he replied that he did not. "What I do know," he went on, "is that if I don't get ‘em today, I'm sure going to get ‘em tomorrow." |
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1-58648-252-7 Pub date: 05/05/04 Price: $26.00/40.00 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 320 pages Carton Quantity: 28 Baseball, Popular Culture, Sports Selling Territory: W Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs Translation, Audio & Performance Rights: Janklow & Nesbit PAPERBACK ISBN 978-1-58648-330-2 Pub date: 04/20/05 Price: $14.00/19.95 Canada 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 384 pages Carton Quantity: 28 Baseball, Popular Culture, Sports Selling Territory: W Pub history: |
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