"take me out to the ballgame" - bob dylan
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (a capella) - Bob Dylan (download here)
from Theme Time Radio Hour, ep. 04: Baseball
(file expires April 12th)
I think baseball's slowness, exactly what most people seem to hate about the game, is exactly what I love about it: being able to watch characters develop slowly, over (if we're lucky) eight months, both in action and in repose, in micro (at bat by at bat) and macro (the story arc of an entire career), and having plenty of time between pitches to boggle about it all.
Of course, whenever I try to boil down why I love baseball and not other sports, it's all sort of arbitrary -- which isn't to say unimportant, just more akin to a religion one is born into, and accepted as meaningful many moons ago. Except for the fact that baseball begins with the spring, and ends as the leaves die. Anyway, it's April, and the Mets are 3-and-0, so here's Bob Dylan singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" from the fourth episode of his Theme Time Radio Hour.