In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball - Front Porch Republic

In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball - Front Porch Republic

Homestand: Small Town America and the Fight for the Soul of America by Will Bardenwerper Peak professional baseball arrived in 1949, when more than thirty-nine million fans sat on splintery bleachers and under leaky grandstands in support of their local minor-league nines. They watched in San Diego and Stroudsburg, Fort Worth and Fond du Lac, Louisville and Lumberton—448 towns and cities in total, across all forty-eight states, Canada, Cuba, and…