Well, actual exhibition baseball, but it's March 4 and we've got about a month left
before real baseball that counts: enjoy what we have to watch, or the wait will be that much more difficult.
And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which
baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above
before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the
real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.