Yet another post topic about which the internet needs no more words: Barry Bonds. I’ve been trying to figure out what to think about the Bonds scandal, which is really just baseball’s so-called “steroid era” bundled into one person at one particular moment. You know, breaking the really big record in baseball, the career homerun record, arguably the only record in American sports that matters. Everyone excited is faking: this is nothing but uninspiring.
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Is baseball still America’s sport – that is, where we take “America” to be the United States? I think so, especially in light of the new discussion of race and baseball. The new discussion: the crisis (for better or worse, that’s the rhetoric) of falling African-American participation at all levels. The statistics have taken a pretty simple and straightforward trajectory: from 17.25 percent in 1959 (year following integration) to 30 percent in the mid-seventies to 8 percent this season. That’s stark. That’s strange. That’s certainly worth thinking about. What does it all mean? Some thoughts… Read the rest of this entry »