Dave Zirin: What’s to Love About Baseball?

Dave Zirin: What’s to Love About Baseball?

Dave Zirin: What’s to Love About Baseball?

Baseball is neither poor, nasty, brutish nor short—at least, if sports fans have their way.

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What’s so bad about steroids in baseball? And why do Americans care so much about the sport in the first place? As Nation sports editor Dave Zirin puts it, “There’s a timelessness about it that we want to be able to preserve, and not think that it’s getting out of whack with the times, with technology—which is really what performance-enhancing drugs represent.” Zirin joins acclaimed writers Jane Leavy, Frank Deford and John Grisham at the Virginia Festival of the Book to reflect on the meaning of the game.

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What can pro sports do to stop rape? As Dave Zirin writes, a lot.

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