Baseball players, as Bill James quite accurately stated, are paid to be heroes. The sport does not have the raw physical display of football, or the speed of basketball, or the simple-minded appeal of soccer. What it does have that no other professional sport even values very much is integrity, or at least an appreciation that integrity is important.
— Jack Marshall, “baseball ethicist” for the Hardball Times, in a piece explaining why Barry Bonds remained unsigned this year
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