Baseball is America’s national pastime. That baseball also happens to be a sport is incidental. The dynamics come from its being a pastime. At its core it has

Baseball is America’s national pastime. That baseball also happens to be a sport is incidental. The dynamics come from its being a pastime. At its core it has traditionally been unhurried and the game can fall into the background for spectators. As a sport baseball is explicitly statistical with a sample size of 162 games at the top level.