For fans of Major League Baseball tomorrow is the big day, Opening Day. It’s the only day of the season when every team is in first place, every batter is hitting 1.000, and every pitcher has an ERA of 0.00.
A few years back George Will wanted to write a baseball book, in an effort to analyze exactly what makes Major League Baseball such an intriguing sport.
And for his research he went to the experts: Cal Ripken, Orel Hershiser, Tony Gwynn, and Tony La Russa.
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And what Will found was not just a deep well of talent, but extraordinary ability to synthesize mountains of information.
What emerged was George Will’s 1990 book called Men At Work. he and I talked about it just a few weeks into the 1990 Major League season.
So here now, from 1990, George Will.
George Will will be 84 in May. You can read his columns in the Washington Post and see him on NewsNation.