as a former english teacher (who would flunk himself because he doesn't use capital letters) and newspaper editor (who'd fire himself for the same reason), i'm used to pressing stories into peoples' hands and saying, "hey, you must read this. it's great."
i haven't done that in years - until now. the new york times piece below is about baseball, written by a times columnist (and former food writer), frank bruni, it appeared in the opinion pages of sunday's paper, and its topic is only a very small one: how baseball, of all things, can save lives.
bruni offers proof. it's in guys like steve bandura and the kids in his charge.
