The Audacity of Failure

by 0157H7 on Sep 12, 2008 3:01 PM EDT

On a fundamental level, baseball is about failure. The best batters will succeed in not making an out only 40% of the time. Most major league pitchers allow at least one run, and often many more, to score. The criteria for pitching a perfect game - no hits, no walks, no hit batsmen, no errors - are...