Two of my favorite writers on just about any topic are George Will and Rabbi Marc Gellman. I don't always agree with either of them, but I love their reasoning and their writing. What's intriguing to me is that both of them write about baseball occasionally. Rabbi Gellman has a wonderful article on Baseball as perhaps the great cultural uniter among the various cultures that try to assimilate into the American experiment.
I buy the thesis, although, to me personally it isn't as powerful anymore after the way MLB has handled the doping scandals.
At any rate, well worth a read.
