Me and the Baseball Tonight Crew at the Winter Meetings- They Loved My Article! In his book, Is This a Great Game or What?, ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian wrote, “Baseball is the only major sport in which some of the standard-bearers have been dead for fifty years, and a team that hasn’t played in eighty years, the 1927 Yankees, are still mentioned in casual conversation.” Indeed the game seems to transcend time and has created an entire culture of those who use statistics from th