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No matter the march of time, the game of baseball will always be stuck in 1930. Grandstands, newsreels, games of pepper—the game has an old soul, an ingrained essence that taps into a different era, a different mentality.
Through the waxing and waning of exploding scoreboards, cookie-cutter stadiums, and uniforms with shorts—White Sox, I’m looking at you—the game has always had a streak of staidness running through it. It was of ...
We’ve survived it. “The Decade from Hell,” as Time called it. The 2000s—or Aughts, or Double-O’s, or whatever you want to call them—were not for the faint of heart. Sparkling towers felled by manned missiles; a pair of wars foisted with thought to cost neither fiscal or physical; a hurricane turning America’s soul, New Orleans, into a watery, ransacked shell.
No, it wasn’t for the faint. And it sure as ...