Baseball is More Than Just a Game

Wes Cassell
6 min readAug 9, 2019

One cunningly covert operation back in 1992 is a perfect example of why, to me, baseball is so much more than just a game.

“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of

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Wes Cassell

Husband. Father. Runner. Writer for hire. Am I a hero? I really can’t say. But yes.