Comments on: Baseball: Why It Connects to Our American Story

By: Brian Hughes

Brian Hughes — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:06:23 +0000

Enjoyed the story very much. The link between local history and baseball is very similar to the oil fields out here in Southern California. Each oil field village had its own team and like the mills in the article they would play on Sundays. The article mentioned Walter Johnson, he played for an oil field team out here too and there was an exhibition game on October 31, 1924 that featured Johnson pitching for the Anaheim Elks and Babe Ruth pitching (that’s right, pitching) for his Ruth All-Stars, a traveling team of then current major league players. It was quite the attraction at the Brea Bowl in Brea, CA.

By: Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:59:10 +0000

I love baseball … couple years ago I fulfilled a lifelong dream and made the pilgrimage to Cooperstown. The year Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn (my favorite player) were inducted. A highlight of my life for sure.

By: Lyman Grover

Lyman Grover — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:03:17 +0000

I thought the article was rather unrelated to interpretation… despite the attempted tie-in in the very last paragraph. It was a nice story, well researched and well written, and it gave me a new appreciation for baseball in America; but I don’t think I need to “understand baseball” to “understand America”, nor will it help me in “developing an interpretive talk”.

(I wrote the above in the spirit of writing a ‘letter to the editor’ of a newspaper. If comments here are only supposed to be complimentary, I apologize.)

By: John Richards

John Richards — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:50:48 +0000

Very nice article. As both a baseball and history fan, particularly of Idaho and Haywood trial history, I enjoyed reading it.

See the following link on my blog for “The Weiser Wonder.”
http://steunenberg.blogspot.com/2008/02/weiser-wonder.html

Thanks, John