By Kenneth Craycraft | OSV News
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Baseball is the only major team sport in which “sacrifice” is an official statistic. Other sports may have occasions in which a player will be called to subordinate his statistical interest in favor of a team goal, but only in baseball is a player sent onto the field of play for the purpose of sacrificing his opportunity for the greater good.
Batters only get about four chances per game to get a hit; to give up one of those chances is no small matter.
I thought of this as I revisited David James Duncan’s 1992 novel, “The Brothers K” — a story about baseball, God and politics, in no particular order.
