Voiced by STL’s No. 1 celeb and written by sports scribe Tom Verducci, the 3:34 video extols the virtues of baseball.
While focusing on the coronavirus shutdown, the video touches on other times in U.S. history, such as World War II and 9/11, when baseball served as a national unifying force.
The highlight, at least for Cardinals fans, is a 7-second clip (at the 2:17 mark) that shows David Freese’s abiding Game 6 home run against the Texas Rangers in the 2011 World Series.
Right after that snippet, Hamm imparts Verducci’s following passage about the need for baseball to resume:
“It is not because you heal us, you do not end wars, solve social injustice or invent vaccines.