Team USA was pathetic in the World Baseball Classic final against Venezuela on Tuesday night, and it has nothing to do with losing to a country with a 10th of the population, and 383 times less GDP. They’re pathetic both because of how they acted after winning silver, the message they sent to young fans around the country, and how Team USA competed in the entire tournament, managing to achieve the impossible: Suck the romanticism out of baseball.
The foundation for the millionaire stars of today was laid by those who loved the game so much that there was no escaping its siren song. Negro League athletes barely scraping together
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