Can Baseball Keep Up With Us?
America's national pastime got slower as American society sped up—will reforming the rules help?
June 22, 2023
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Episode 25 · June 22, 2023
Can Baseball Keep Up With Us?
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Summary
Are we just too impatient for America’s famously leisurely national pastime? Hanna Rosin asks staff writer Mark Leibovich whether the changes MLB is making to baseball this summer could help him, and the rest of us, fall in love with baseball all over again.
Interested in the changes baseball’s making? Read Mark’s article on how Moneyball broke baseball—and how the same people who broke it are back, trying to save it.
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