LAS VEGAS -- In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . . . baseball. OK, so the poet laureate Alfred Tennyson ended that line with "love," but he was British -- and baseball wasn't invented until he was an old man.
Football is my favorite sport these days, but my first love was baseball while growing up in the Chicago suburbs, so I'm always nostalgic this time of year as I dig out my cassette tape of "Baseball's Greatest Hits" featuring classic recordings of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," "Who's On First?