Where Have All the Weirdos Gone?

Baseball once let characters shape the game, now it shapes the characters.

Baseball used to be full of weirdos.

Guys who talked to the ball. Who pitched like they were untangling a knot. Who wore their socks inside-out for a month because the hits kept falling. The kind of players who made you lean forward in your seat not because of what they did last game, but because you had no idea what they’d do next.

Rickey Henderson spoke…