Baseball is a game at once timeless and new, at once simple and complex. One may watch every game intently for decades and still encounter surprises. Yet, at its core, baseball is a simple game, involving simple activities in which people have engaged since long before the first words were written. It is even possible that the idea for writing came from earliest scorekeeping, marks cut into wood measuring how many rocks one might knock down with another rock. Throwing is a primal impulse; catching is a natural corollary, and from the combination of the two, batting easily follows.
The Importance of a Game
