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...Cubs and New York Mets in Japan, where there was presumably no red, white and blue bunting in the grandstands. The move has provoked angry reactions from many fans who believe that Major League Baseball, especially Opening Day, should stay in America. Among players, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, the home run king, has been the most vocal critic of the series in Japan: "People come to America, they come here to watch our game. I think it's the bottom line," he said. "They [Major League Baseball] want to copy what the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. are doing...
...Though McGwire's fears are understandable, surely baseball can grow into an international sport without losing its historical place in American culture. Already baseball is played across the Caribbean and South America and in parts of Asia; even a few European countries, including Italy and Germany, have fledgling leagues. Growth is good for the game; the talent pool today is getting deeper, and more people across the world are following the major leagues that ever before. And through it all, there's no evidence that the sport's "American-ness" has suffered. America has invented a great game, a national...
Until last season. On April 23, Fernando Tatis, batting behind Mark McGwire, did exactly that. Even more remarkable than the event, however, was how unremarked it went. Tatis' miracle inning hardly made it into the next day's newspapers. Americans know Brandi Chastain. Ask them who hit two grand slams in one inning...
...barons of the game say baseball is back. "The game is more popular today than ever before," boasted commissioner Bud Selig after the '98 McGwire-Sosa home-run chase. That burst of excitement gave the widespread impression that baseball was on the rebound...
...later, when the rivals met again at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa, a gathering of 3,000 Democrats, Gore was even more aggressive. Again Bradley spoke first, lamenting the state of politics and wondering why he and Gore couldn't be more like home-run rivals Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, "pushing [each other] to be the best we could be." When it was Gore's turn, he called Bradley a quitter--Bradley left the Senate while Gore "stayed and fought"--and then neatly turned the tables on his reform-minded rival. "I listened carefully to what...