Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout - that's baseball. So is the big, fat guy with a bulbous nose running home one of his 714 home runs. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years …showed first 75 words of 401 total…

…showed last 75 words of 401 total…consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this Earth." Baseball is cigar smoke, hot-roasted peanuts, The Sporting News, Ladies Day, Down in Front, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," and "The Star Spangled Banner." Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America - this baseball!