Born Into Baseball
How Listening to Radio Broadcasts of the Playoffs Soothed My New Child, and Me
I have always been a Red Sox fan; genes and geography—I grew up in Boston—saw to that. But this year I became a baseball fan, rooting not only for the Sox but also listening, enthralled, to the exploits of the Pirates, the A’s, the Tigers—any team that could put up a good fight. Nearly every day this fall, I’ve turned on the Internet radio and, holding my daughter in my arms, listened to game upon game, beginning with the East Coast afternoon contests broadcast in the West Coast morning, and …
