Time begins once again

In Spring, a young man's thoughts lightly turn to "Play ball!"  The dogwoods are in full bloom, the wisteria is spectacular, and the umpire once again brushes dirt off of the plate.



Go Sox!

The post title reference is to this, although 2cents pointed this out to me back when he had to give me a photocopy* instead of a link.  The center fielder cannot hold.  Funniest bit on baseball ever written:

All-star Cincinnati shortstop Johnny P. Sartre in 1964 became the first major leaguer to refuse the Most Valuable Player Award. Sartre declined the prestigious award because of his long-standing opposition to the infield-fly rule. He denounced the rule, claiming that it severely limited human freedom and that it introduced into the game "a momentary paralysis in the midst of movement—all play suddenly assumes an automatic quality." The lifetime .350 hitter had made news several years earlier when he referred to the Ground Rule Double as an "absurd bourgeois convention."

* Kids, ask your parents.