Excerpt from Jack Pots: Stories of the Great American Game
All civilized nations love sport, but Americans surpass all the world in that as in so many other respects. That is because Americans are so little conservative that they readily adopt all games as their own. As in everything else, England is shy of any but the customs that bear the mark of her own breeding, and a game - out or indoor - makes but slow progress in her affections. We have been trying to introduce base ball into the tight little island for twenty years, and although we are told that there are clubs here and there and hear dim rumors that some of the players are crack-a-jacks, we never hear of any of our magnates signing these phenoms, nor do we believe there is in all Great Britain a boy who gets up in the morning and makes a rush for the paper to see the score before his father looks at it.
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