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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

Baseball has been very good to me.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.