baseball the blown perfect game

baseball, the blown perfect game

fiction
edward w pritchard

Baseball stands for something uniquely American. No matter what happens there's another game and another chance tomorrow. People make mistakes, in the game of baseball; they are called errors unless they are made by the first base umpire and then it's a bad judgment call. The first base umpire made a bad call and it cost the pitcher his once in a career perfect game. The pitcher took it in stride. Maybe he can pitch another perfect game some time in the future. The umpire made a wrong call and the pitcher had to live with it.

Baseball monitors and fixes it's mistakes. There's another game tomorrow and there's no time for recriminations.

It does a heart good to see baseball move on after a bad call. Mistakes were made, let's play ball, have a beer, it's six dollars a glass now but at the stadium that's OK.

The pitcher who lost the perfect game and the umpire shake hands and another pitcher takes the mound for today's game and the umpire gets back to his duties.

Baseball is an American institution. Other American businesses could learn something from baseball.