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Major-league baseball is a mismanaged game driven by money and greed. It continues to alienate anyone who remembers what the game used to be. Last week baseball’s problems got thrown into our face again–a night when too many “fire-sale” trades made a farce of the game. . . . The sad thing is baseball at its best is the best sport there is. We saw this with the Hall of Fame induction, another example of the powerful pull of the game’s past, the sense that baseball is one big continuum that links the generations, deeply imbedded into the fabric of the country in ways the other sports are not. Baseball at its best is as timeless as a childhood memory, a reminder that a game can be a constant in an ever-changing world.
