War on the Diamond (2022) - Does it hold up?

Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty ImagesWar on the Diamond is a 2022 baseball documentary ostensibly about the rivalry between the baseball team from Cleveland and the New York Yankees. Clever readers will have noticed that word ostensibly, meaning that’s what it’s supposed to be about. In practice, it’s actually a documentary about former Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman with some other Cleveland vs New York stuff thrown in to pad it out a bit.

Chapman’s story is a sad one, but not a particularly complex one. In 1912 he joined Cleveland’s team, then known as the Naps after Nap LaJoie. He was a well-regarded player, though he didn’t reach superstar levels. FanGraphs estimates his…