Baseball season again. Time to re-enter the temples of baseball again. Temples? Yes, temples.
To most people, baseball is merely a game. But to some others, it's virtually a religion, a game played in temples, the temples of baseball, be they major league stadiums or any other baseball park at any level from the major leagues to the little parks at much lower levels where I played in hopes of making it big as a professional. But that's another story.
Of course baseball is a game. But it is indeed a game that's played in temples. Baseball parks are places of myth, superstition and legend, no less than the temples where the great myths, superstitions and legends of religion hold sway.
Even the most casual fan is likely to know the myths and legends that make up baseball's storied history. Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in the 1932 World Series, for example. His whole career, in fact.
Temples are places of tradition and veneration, and ritual and order, of wisdom being passed from generation to generation, in baseball's temples being passed from older players and managers to younger players.