[UA] Baseball

[Will Mitchell]

I'm not sure if this has ever been spoken about in any of the books (I've
only had the opportunity to look at the main book) but, out of all the
sports I've followed, baseball seems to have the most strange occurrences.
Not only that, but it seems like the sport most prone to cabalistic
number-crunch cults. I've not followed baseball closely for very long (as a
kid, I was a Jays fan, but only the past two seasons have gotten me back
into the game), but the sheer weird that surrounds is possibly the most
interesting thing.

Some things I find interesting:

 - Randy Johnson pitches a fastball that hits and kills a dove during a game
on March 20, 2001. Two years later, almost to the day, the country begins a
war.

 - Woody Woodward was almost killed in a game in 1976 (I think) when a
10-pound sack of flour was dropped from an airplane and exploded 15 feet
away from him.

 - "Sabermetrics" is a field of statistical study that attempts to
understand, compare and predict baseball decisions and objectively and
empirically decide how good players, teams and franchises are/were. I follow
a few sports, but I've never seen a sport with this level of
number-crunching and creepily accurate prediction.

These are just a few off of the top of my head. I'm sure there are many,
many more.

So what's the deal with The Ol' Ball Game?
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