Daily Archives: November 21, 2009

11/21/09 Weekend Grif.Net – Sports Philosophy

Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this
country. And as such, it seems they tell us something about ourselves and
our values. I enjoy comparing baseball and football:
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a 20th-century
technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. Football is played on a
gridiron, in [...]