Baseball; the Last Great American Pastime by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Baseball; the Last Great American Pastime

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Besides a certain degree of perhaps misplaced disrespect

for what was previously quoted, the preceding information serves

a larger purpose. It clearly indicates the degree to which the

advent of continuous filming has tarnished the value of eye

witness reports which cannot be verified on film. At the very

least the belief in this practice ensures a reverence for

anything done in the era of multi cameras, fabricated footage a

reality not herein discussed, though reserved.

Quotes used herein and attributed to star players of the

time may be the concoction of some crud writer who wants to tell

an attention grabbing story, either for financial gain or self-

importance. One who wants to pursue the facts must treat all un-

verifiable information with a common sense approach, hopefully

finding some consistency within slightly differing renditions.

There seems little choice in the matter in 2016. If we do not do

that we basically have to say that baseball did not exist before

television invented it and diligently saved and stored the

information without compensation.

A double “Duh,” does not suffice.