One of the many (MANY) things that makes baseball great is its relationship to and with American history. More than any other sport, baseball embraces and celebrates its own history and its place in the larger picture of U.S. history and culture.
One of many (MANY) results of this is the vast number of publications devoted to that history and that place. No other sport has generated the wealth of quality literature, both fiction and nonfiction, that baseball has. Regardless of popularity polls, television ratings, or countless Op-Eds, baseball has a place in U.