Baseball and the tragic sense of life …

… Book Review: 'A Nice Little Place on the North Side' by George F. Will - WSJ.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Although he does not mention it in his book, Mr. Will once told me that the reason he could not be a Cardinals fan was that the announcer for the Cardinals when he was growing up was the bilious Harry Caray, whose depression the congenitally optimistic George Will could not abide. (Such is the bitter lot of the Cubs fan, Caray would in later years become the principal, and still depressive, TV announcer for Cubs games.)