This article in National Review Online is all
about how baseball is the professional sport that best embodies conservative principles. The
reasons have nothing to do with the game itself — the absence of a clock, the lack of penalties called by officials, the way fans can keep a ball hit into the stands, none of that stuff. In Baseball is meritocratic.stead, baseball is the best conservative sport because it’s a testimony to the success of free markets and limited government.
Among the reasons, as listed by Fred Schwarz, a deputy managing editor for the National review:
- Baseball is meritocratic.
- Baseball is federalist; its central government is the weakest of any major professional sport.
- Baseball is sartorially libertarian. (There used to be a uniform uniform code…)
- Baseball handles immigration the right way, with foreigners recruited
for specific skills and all legal requirements taken care of. - Baseball is the closest thing in professional sports to a free market.
- Baseball has no affirmative action.
- Baseball maintains a lean bureaucracy for its on-field decisions.
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