Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times...
God gets you to the plate but once your there your on your own.
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger better and better! No question about it...
I think that clearly it has an influence to be coming of age during the punk rock era to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background to have been in and out of such chaos I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
