Just ask an older relative and they’ll remind you that the game is perfect and doesn’t even need to change. As I listened to guides and read signs throughout Zion, I couldn’t help but relate those to what Carleton set out to do in his book.īaseball is our most conservative sport, famously resistant to change. It just so happened the book accompanying me on my trip was the latest from Russell Carleton, The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball. Standing in the shadow of the Navajo sandstone towering thousands of feet overhead, it was impossible not to consider the way the Virgin River carved those incredible domes and amphitheaters over millennia of slow, methodical work. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Zion National Park in southern Utah, and from the moment I drove the car into the canyon the immensity of that beautiful canyon was overwhelming.
