THE BOYS OF SUMMER READING; Baseball's scribes are out to save the game from itself

From: Boise Weekly | Date: September 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Major League Baseball doesn't seem to get anything but stink-press anymore. Sosa is a corker. Bonds wants to kill Babe Ruth (even though he's already kinda dead). The pitchers are divas. The batters are 'roiders. The owners are jerks. The players are babies. And everyone involved are selfish, moneyhoarding mini-Macchiavellis. All of a sudden (although it's been this way for some time), it is getting hard to reconcile the game we read about on the AP wire with the pastoral pastime that hovered, serene and untaintable, in Ken Burns' idyllic documentary just a few years ago.

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