Sweetness And Light
Originally published on Wed June 13, 2012 6:14 am
Baseball historians continue to poke around in the 19th century to better explain how the game was originated and developed, but I've always wondered if one of the prime movers wasn't a student of Shakespeare.
While I certainly don't know the terminology of all ball games, the popular ones I'm aware of — everything from basketball and football to golf and tennis — all use some variations of the words in and out when determining whether the ball is playable.
Only baseball is different.
"Fair is foul and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air."
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