![]() ![]() It was October 14, 1992, and the obscenely slow Sid Bream had just beaten Barry Bonds’s throw home to seal a walk-off win for the Braves in NLCS Game 7. John Helyar remembers the moment he realized that writing about the business of baseball had changed the way he watched the game. And the fans, ever forgiving, were still there.” -John Helyar, Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball The money poured into the game and men gorged and gouged over it-made damned fools of themselves over it. They wallowed in dubious battle, locked in ugly trench warfare for dominion over the green fields. Men fought to control it as if they could own it. ![]() They were, perhaps, blinded by the light of what it represented-a glowing distillate of America. “There was something about the national pastime that made the people in it behave badly. ![]()
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