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Griffey, Piazza, and the Dying Mythology of Baseball

Related Topics: Mythology, Death, Babe Ruth

Perseus; Sisyphus; Theseus; Prometheus; Icarus; Ruth; Williams; Mays; Banks.

The Greek names are so fitting because legends, myths, are all of us. Yet they’re also none of us, their feats too grand to be accomplished by mere mortals. From slaying monsters to pushing rocks up mountains in eternal struggle, to bringing fire to flying too close to the sun, those stories of old tell of men aided by gods in tasks none thought possible. Or maybe they got caught trying to play like the gods, to do things man was never meant to do.

Myths often attempt to explain that which the mind can’t comprehend, growing taller over time as they’re retold in the absence of corroborating evidence.