Name association: Tim McCarver. Two things: 1) In 1966, as the Cardinals’ catcher, he led the NL with 13 triples. That phrase, “He’s pretty fast for a catcher,” is nothing new. I heard it as a kid,…
He encouraged Kiner to share stories, opinions, observations. They wondered aloud and together why Kevin McReynolds was playing straightaway in left. They swapped stories about Bill Veeck, Bob Gibson and Leo Durocher. Our pleasure was their pleasure.
Was the World Series must-see TV when he was a kid? Did he care that TV money turned it into too-late-for-kids-to-see TV?Does he realize that baseball has a soul, a pulse, a heart? Does he understand that baseball now has severe self-inflicted cardiac issues that can’t be cured with annually applied non-curative Band-Aids — the kind that don’t stick?
The unnatural, artificial additive of the 10th-inning automatic runner at second serves as testimony to Manfred’s sense of The Game, his willingness to replace its heart with a clock.
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