Morning Hot Reads: Our nationalized pastime?

In a N.Y. TIMES guest essay, The Lamp's Matthew Walther writes baseball fans should "come to terms" with the "inevitable future in which professional baseball is nationalized and put under the authority of some large federal entity -- the Library of Congress, perhaps, or more romantically, the National Park Service." Like the Delta blues or Yellowstone National Park, baseball is "as indelibly American as it is painfully uncommercial." But left to "fend for itself, the game will eventually disappear."

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