Confessions of a baseball convert
By Bart Isley | February 17, 2005Fine, I'll admit it. Baseball matters. It took a spring and summer of live games at Davenport field last year, as well as a miraculous comeback in October by the Red Sox, but I'm now convinced that baseball does matter. I'm certainly the most reluctant of baseball converts, largely because of my frustrating childhood exposure to "America's game." Like most boys' parents in eastern North Carolina, my parents signed me up for tee-ball as a child.