If you are 80 years old, as I am, and still play baseball, as I do (San Diego Adult Baseball League), and have written a baseball blog five days a week, 24 weeks a year for four years, resulting in more than 384,000 words about baseball, a logical person might conclude, Mitrovich must be serious about baseball.
Yes, I am.
My adoration of America’s Game began on a May night 74 years ago. My father took me to Lane Field, a ballpark at the foot of Broadway built by the Works Progress Administration, a creation of President Franklin D.