The Ambiance of Summer
Although I haven’t written much about them since my January 8 post, I’m a huge, lifelong Atlanta Braves fan. I was a fan in 1977 when they lost 101 games . I was a fan in 1988 when they lost 106 games . I damn sure was a fan when they won 14 consecutive division championships . A record. The beauty of baseball is that it is in a sense timeless. A game could theoretically never end. There is no sudden death in a traditional game of ball. While timeless it is also seamless. The present connects very comfortably with the past. Despite various changes that are mostly meaningless to non-baseball fans, the 1919 Chicago White Sox can be compared with the Big Red Machine . The Braves of 1914 are comparable to the Braves of 1995 on many levels even though the way the game is played is very different, even the ball is very different. The instinctive, divisive love or hate of the New York Yankees was earned by that team with its success through time. Like them or not, they are by far the most