[Baseball was] born out of the enlightenment and the philosophies so beloved of Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton … designed as geometrically as the city of Washington … orderly, reasoned, judiciously balanced, incorporating segments of violence and collision in a larger plan of rationality, absolutely dependent on an interiorization of public rules … a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited cooperation in their mutual interests.
— Michael Novak, philosopher (via mightyflynn)
