Baseball tells us it is fair. Three strikes. Three outs. Ninety feet between the bases. The truth is the game has never been that simple. For more than a century fairness in baseball depended on the man in blue. The umpire was not just a referee. He was the law. His authority was absolute. That power gave baseball a unique flavor, but it also opened a d…
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